“I look back to the six years which I passed at the {{w|Highgate School#History|Highgate School}} with very little pleasure. The headmaster, Dr. Dyne was a capable pedagogue enough, not more than usually narrow-minded, priggish, and conventional. He was a type of the old-fashioned pedantic school, which looked upon Oxford as the "hub of the universe," thought the study of Latin and {{w|Greek language|Greek}} the primary object of our creation, despised modern languages and foreign countries, and believed thoroughly in the virtues of corporal punishment.”