Francis McMellon Quotes

Francis McMellon (1892–1976) was an English headmaster and artist best known for advocating for the democratisation of education and for painting exquisite landscapes of the Lancashire countryside.

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“The sooner Mr. Parkinson realises the fact that true education is not an ability to write in copperplate work lengthy and useless problems in arithmetic or memorise long strings of capes and bays, the better.”

Francis McMellon

Source: McMellon, F. (1921). Our Modern Education. Lancashire Evening Post. 11 March 1921, p.4.

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