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Thread #142945   Message #3297302
Posted By: MGM·Lion
27-Jan-12 - 12:53 PM
Thread Name: Childrens Folk Education in the UK
Subject: RE: Childrens Folk Education in the UK
Well, maybe not Little Musgrave. But I still remember delighting in Sweet Nightingale and HoRo My Nut-Brown Maiden.

Like all school subjects, there are those to whom it will appeal and those to whom it will not. But the sure way to fail to arouse the interest of the former group is never to expose them to it.

I never cared greatly for maths; but I don't drop dead at mention of quadratic equations ~~ and I don't believe that those who didn't warm to country dancing at school will find the experience of hearing Speed The Plough in later life terminal, either.

~Michael~