The Schoolmaster of the Future Size:L: 80 x 60cm Krist Noveselic

Krist Noveselic

Sitting on his bike smoking a cigarette

The caption describes the location as being the proposed site for the Wellington Monument

('The American Gladiators') The American Gladiators are President Lincoln on the left to represent the Northern States

The Schoolmaster of the Future Size:L: 80 x 60cm Krist Noveselic'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