From Richard Nordquist. Well, it is time for the children to go back to school.
- The Education of Women, by Daniel Defoe
- A Liberal Education, by Thomas Henry Huxley
- The Lower Depths, by H.L. Mencken
- On Education and Style, by Ben Jonson
- The Ph.D. Octopus, by William James
- Professorial Ethics, by John Jay Chapman
- The Superstition of School, by G.K. Chesterton
- The Temple of Learning, by Benjamin Franklin
- What Is Wrong With Our System of Education? by George Bernard Shaw
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I think that Mencken was a trifle unfair here. “As every schoolboy knows”, sorting is in the most favorable case O(n log n), which for about 1600 entries means something over 16 thousand comparisons. Assume an average of even a hair over a second per comparison, and that means five hours to sort the cards into the order of priority. With the best will in the word, I don’t think I could manage more than an hour of riffling through such cards. I suspect that the professors did a pretty distracted job.