'Hands-on education'? Well - we did have rather a honey of a matron (about 23-ish?) at my prep school; one day she put her hand..............
Sorry!
So you had to suffer Mr Kennedy's famously horrid book as well, eh FV?
Nowadays the " 's doin me 'ed i'n" kids of contemporary yoofcuwcha (that famous oxymoron) wouldn't have a clue what we're talking about! The joys of gerundive attraction, the subjunctive....etc etc!