The Schoolmaster of the Future Size:L: 80 x 60cm The caption describes the location

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

St James's Palace

Sitting on his bike smoking a cigarette

showing EH Robinson's opticians and the premises of Cassidy and Wells

The Schoolmaster of the Future Size:L: 80 x 60cm The caption describes the location'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