the Common Place

2 things i did not know about Ivor Cutler: he was a teacher at Summerhill school, and he was in the Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour.

The wikipedia article also yields this:

…leaving a teaching job he held in the 1950s, he cut up his tawse and handed the pieces to the class.

My friend Ruth’s ex-husband George Campbell has a funny story about meeting one of his old schoolmasters, a dedicated user of the tawse, at an Amnesty International meeting.

There’s nothing quite like a Scots education.

More Ivor: Looking for truth with a pin.

And here’s an animation of “Lemon Flower” from the album “Jammy Smears.”