![]() ![]() I think it the most long-sighted view it is possible to take.” The Long-Sighted View “There, headmaster, with all respect, I differ from you profoundly. I think it would be very wicked indeed to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world.” “If you approve, headmaster, I will stay as I am here as long as any boy wants to read the classics. “But, you know, there may be something of a crisis ahead.” The headmaster then endeavors to convince Scott-King to give up teaching classics (“Greats”) and take up, perhaps, history, “preferably economic history.” Scott-King turns him down-as Bertie Wooster would say, “like a bedspread”: They want to qualify their boys for jobs in the modern world. But what are we to do? Parents are not interested in producing the ‘complete man’ anymore. “As you know I’m an old Greats man myself. “I thought that would be about the number.” ![]() ![]() “You know,” said, “we are starting this year with fifteen fewer classical specialists than we had last term?” At the end of Evelyn Waugh’s novella Scott-King’s Modern Europe -my first book recommendation-Scott-King, a middle-aged classics master at an English boys prep school, has a conversation with his headmaster about course assignments for the next term: ![]()
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