The Schoolmaster of the Future Showbusiness The award was presented by

The award was presented by the Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers Federation

'A Leap in the Dark'

and became ambassador to England in 1815

Original is oil on canvas 51x40

11th March 1977

The Schoolmaster of the Future Showbusiness The award was presented by'The Schoolmaster of the Future', 1887. The British workman has come into school to take the boy away in order to teach him a trade that will be more useful to him in life than Trigonometry or Geology. This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name in which Punch puts forward the view that an artisan of the future must needs learn a craft and develop skills that will stand him in good stead. It is not that book learning is bad for a boy, but 'if a