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In message , Mary
Fisher writes

English grammar and spelling and Latin were the best things I ever learned.
They weren't the only lessons though. I didn't excel at everything -
especially maths, history and sports.

Nor did I learn from detentions, lines and other punishments ...

"Nothing is more distressing to a well regulated mind than the sight of
a person who ought to know better disporting himself in an improper
manner at an improper time"

I still remember

in "units" of 30


We had to write an essay (choice of subject from a list of about eight)
and if it was rubbish or too short you'd be back in detention the next
week. ISTR that I just wrote the same essay every time (which was most
weeks at one point) - Sunday afternoons were such fun :-)