It’s flying time for crawlers
E. C. Wragg · 2004
Politicians often blacken the past so they can glorify the present and future: once we were the dunces of Europe, now we are the intellectual giants of the solar system, or will soon be if you just give us one more term in government. It is understandable because schools do the same. Is there a mission statement anywhere in the land that states,‘Some people here have just lost it, as we slide irrevocably down the slope of indifference’? Of course not. In public statements people present themselves in their best light and truth may be gently massaged.