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Mathematics is perhaps our most useful tool to teach discipline so that they can do something hard every single day. School ought to be a training ground for the intellect, not a clearing house for skills. Dullards must not set the pace. Students should be encouraged to develop a sense of their smallness alongside the world's riches. Humility remains a decent aim for the well-educated mind. Let us not try to do too much. Those subjects that can be got outside school doors, things like fashion design, computer training, and photography should be. Bend their twigs we must, just so they grow, hail, and well.