There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the … - Samuel Johnson

The Prince soon found that this was one of the sages whom he should understand less as he heard him longer. He therefore bowed and was silent; and the philosopher, supposing him satisfied and the rest vanquished, rose up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the present system.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,
And pause a while from learning to be wise.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.