Originally Posted by
Abasmajor
My personal favourite, politically incorrect quotation is included in "The Book of the BSA Air Rifle (llustrated)" published before the first world war to accompany the LJ / BSA air rifles.
The paragraph in question discusses the value of air rifle shooting in schools and itself quotes from a report from the Medical Officer (Education) London County Council, for the year ending March 31st 1907.
" The tendency of girls to nurse dolls or of boys to play soldiers is absolutely natural. The failure to exhibit these normal tastes may be held to indicate mental defect".
The booklet also suggests that elementary shooting techniques would no doubt soon become part of the currIiculum and compulsorily taught in all council and similar schools.
Regards
Brian