Louis XIV time. I can understand him trying to wage a surprise attack against the marxist miasma choking the country, but megalomaniacal utterances certainly won't reassure the opposition.
Maybe they shouldn't teach moronic plug and chug, and instead teach the actual math and go over proofs. Oh wait, these "teachers" don't even understand the proofs behind much of the math.
...presumably "everybody" meaning "everybody but badged orcs". Of course, if this happened to enough "important" people (read -- whites), then likely they wouldn't make prison more "humane", they'd likely rather abolish the insane practice altogether.