The Schoolmaster of the Future Size:L: 80 x 60cm St James's Palace

St James's Palace

Oblique aerial view from the north west of the Graf Zeppelin above St Paul's Cathedral and the River Thames

Krist Noveselic

Sitting on his bike smoking a cigarette

He became the first Chairman of Rolls-Royce Limited when it was formed in 1906 and served in that capacity for many years

The Schoolmaster of the Future Size:L: 80 x 60cm St James's Palace'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