Of all games in the world, the one most universally and eternally popular is the game of school.

You collect six children, and put them on a doorstep, while you walk up and down with the book and cane.

We play it when babies, we play it when boys and girls, we play it when men and women, we play it as, lean and slippered, we totter towards the grave.

It never palls upon, it never wearies us.

Only one thing mars it: the tendency of one and all of the other six children to clamour for their turn with the book and the cane.