This way of keeping young persons
in line, of making sure
they do not speak in their own voices
of anything that counts for them,
goes back to Roman times
when schoolboys declaimed on
proper topics in weekly themes. It
is an ancient tradition,
one of the principal causes of whining
boys crawling like snails
unwillingly to school.
(Macrorie 3)
Exactly.
Macrorie, Ken. Uptaught. New York: Hayden, 1970.
