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Return to the old ways?

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    #32
    Festus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Festus


    Donatello wrote: »
    People had access to books, did they not? The Roman and the Penny Catechism were widely available.

    One must bear in mind that not everyones parents were literate :D

    For those born to literate parents perhaps they just didn't have the cahounas to challenge errant teachers.

    [edit = by they I mean the parents, not those born them.]


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    #33
    Donatello
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Donatello


    Festus wrote: »
    One must bear in mind that not everyones parents were literate :D

    For those born to literate parents perhaps they just didn't have the cahounas to challenge errant teachers.

    Let them look it up on t'internet.


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    #34
    anymore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,672 ✭✭✭anymore


    Donatello wrote: »
    People had access to books, did they not? The Roman and the Penny Catechism were widely available.
    I assume you are too young to understand this era of repression and sadism.


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