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[Jonathan Lighter]

But surely Max sort of knew his Bible.  That would make the title a play on
words.

But now.... "Suffer the little children!!
Mwahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!"

JL




On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Max Rafferty, notorious right-wing education czar of the California public
> schools in the 1960s, titled a famous expose of the nation's education
> system _Suffer, Little Children_ (c1962).  He had used the title for a
> magazine article in 1956.
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> --Charlie
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> In 2008 I mentioned the halfwit interpretation, from 1976 in my
> experience, of the truncated statement "Suffer the little children..." to
> mean, essentially, "Let the little brats suffer!"
>
> Doesn't that appear also to be the interpretation of the otherwise
> apparently literate blogger?
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> JL
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