When the parents became afraid of the girl's health and naturally took her out of school, the little girl was dragged before the court by the truant officer. Fortunately 'the judge turned to the truant officer and asked him how the girl could be a truant, if she bad been suspended. A schoolmistress conceives the happy idea of converting two of her refractory pupils into pin-cushions for the edification of her class. A superintendent of schools in lecturing before an audience of 'subordinate teachers' told them emphatically that there was no place for genius in our schools. Genius shall leave dunder-dweebs in their own abyss of stasyss.
Times are nigh.
Stases are bases of sciolises. Genius cannot fit into the pigeonholes of the office desk. Choke genius, and things will move smoothly in the school and the office. Our schools brand their pupils by a system of marks, while our foremost colleges measure the knowledge and education of their students by the number of 'points' passed. This, you see, interferes with class discipline.