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I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

Charles Dickens

Girl, Creativity, School

Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14216, Delphi Classics

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

Charles Dickens

New Year, School, Angel

Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.91, Courier Corporation