Note 576 — Chapter XI · Prescribed Courses or Elective Studies?
Reading edition
Educational Review, January 1901. We may be excused for quoting the following lines from the same Review, May 1900, which not unaptly travesty the elective system:
Most pupils, like good-natured cows, Keeping browsing and forever browse; If a fair flower come in their way, They take it too, nor ask, “what, pray?” Like other fodder it is food, And for the stomach quite as good.