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English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic, Supporter of Democratic Socialism, Opponent of Authoritarianism, and Proven Undercover Agent Reporting on the Left to the Police
: An English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. Orwell produced literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #6 on Education Struggle Quotes >> School and Authority
“This business of making a gifted boy's career depend on a competitive examination, taken when he is only twelve or thirteen is an evil thing at best...”
Source: "Such, Such Were The Joys," by George Orwell, 1947. First published: Partisan Review. ? GB, London. ? September-October 1952. Part II.
"Such, Such Were The Joys," by George Orwell, 1947. First published: Partisan Review. ? GB, London. ? September-October 1952.
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