Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1878 — Mrs. Partington on Education. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Partington on Education.

“ For my part I can’t deceive what on airth edication is coming to. When I was young, if a gal only understood the rules of distraction, provision, multiplying and replenishing, and the common denominator, and knew all about the rivers and their obituaries, the covenants and their dormitories, the provinces and the umpires, they had edication enough. But now they have to study bottomy, algebay, and have to demonstrate suppositions about the sycophants or circustangents and diagnosis of parallelgrams, to say nothing of oxhides, asheads, cowsticks and obtruse triangles. ” And here the old lady was so confused with the technical names that she was forced to stop.