Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties, These hewed to the recommendations of the Plowden Report,.
Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will - Shakespeare - Hamlet.