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Francis Place was an English social reformer.

✵ 3. November 1771 – 1. January 1854
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“I was sometimes brought to a standstill, and at times almost despaired of making further progress… I knew no one of whom I could ask a question or receive any kind of instruction, and the subject was therefore at times very painful.”

Source: The life of Francis Place, 1771-1854, 1898, p. 18, as cited in: Ernest Green, Harold Shearman. Education For A New Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education), 2012, p. 85

“I can imagine nothing except being a footman or common soldier as more degrading than being either a barber or a tailor.”

Source: The Autobiography of Francis Place: 1771-1854, 1972, p. 216

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