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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 34, No. 18. October 6 1971

Lobotomised

Lobotomised

Even more discouraging than this Auschwitz approach to education is the fact that the students take it. They haven't gone through twelve years of seconary school for nothing They've learned one thing and perhaps only one thing during those twelve years. They've forgotten their algebra. They write like they've been lobotomised. But, Jesus, can they follow orders. Freshers come up to me with an essay and ask if I want it folded, and whether their name should be in the upper right-hand conrner. And I want to cry and kiss them and caress their poor tortured heads.