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See: pedagogue SCHOOLMASTER. One employed in teaching a school.
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This schoolmasterly approach is not contrasted by a creative graphic designer, nor particularly up-to date or off the beaten track references. Not long ago in the House of Commons, our dear prime minister was announcing in his usual schoolmasterly tones--the ones used on particularly inattentive or dim boys in class-- that Saddam's factories of mass destruction were "up [pause] and running [pause] now. There is something fustian and schoolmasterly about its renderings, while the pen and ink illustrations, by Brian Robb, carefree and charming in the postwar pastoral sketchbook style of Edward Ardizzone, planted the fables firmly on juvenile territory: this was the homespun wit and wisdom of granny or Mother Goose, savvy, cynical, practical, perennial, and handed down to the younger generation to develop their "cunning and high spirits" (Walter Benjamin's telling phrase) in dealing with Life. |
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