The council has put some display boards up in my local town, telling a brief history of Ashbourne since the Domesday Book. It relates how the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School was founded in the 16th century, following a petition to Queen Elizabeth I complaining that a lack of education was leading the populace into disreputable behaviour such as swearing, drunkenness and whoring.
Five hundred years on, and the town is still beset by an abundance of swearing and drunkenness every night of the week. The main area of progress seems to have been a reduced proclivity to whoring. Young women these days give of their favours free and freely.
Thank God for education, I say.
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Is Beryl Aiken amongst the educators you thank god for? (chortle!)
My one abiding memory of Beryl Aiken is watching agog as she craned her neck to look up at a strapping, 6ft, 16-year-old member of the school rugby team and saying "I'll slap you, boy - hard!" We saved the sniggers 'til we were out of earshot.
Geeze! (unlike her mineral namesake, she sounds pretty looming and dark.)
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