Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an excellent method for teaching subversion, resilience and resistance to authority. Good work Miss Moran.
by Jane Kenyon
A benign illustration for a not so benign poem – here’s an illustration from Edward Bawden (1903–1989). He drew these lithographs of his home village of Great Bardfield in Essex. Life in an English Village was published by King Penguin Books, in 1949.
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