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I went to a Church of England school where the headmaster was a disciplinarian – so much so that he lost two teachers in three months. They couldn't stick him. But he was a good man. He gave up two nights a week, Tuesday and Thursday, for evening classes. His one condition was if you started, you had to stick at it. First hour on the Tuesday was English as it is spoken. The second hour was Latin. Anyway, we stuck it, and on Thursday the first hour was geometry, and the second hour was algebra. He asked us the shortest distance between two points, A and B, and of course the answer was a straight line. He told us to write down the definition of a curve. Well I couldn't think so I wrote ‘straight line with a bend in it’ and he gave me a rap across the knuckles.