[4] The front cover was illustrated by London artist and illustrator, Colin "Mickey" Finn (not of T. Rex), who also created the two removal men characters used in the Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing".

[6] According to the back cover liner notes,[7] the story which the album presents is as follows: Once upon a time there was a naughty little schoolboy.

Perhaps it was not the punishment that changed him but the fact that he realised people in authority would always be there to kick him down and the Establishment would always put him in his place.

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau regarded the album as "yet another original cast recording" and mocked Davies' indictment of "Education" in the "big production number" of the same name: "Ultimate Cause.

"[13] All tracks are written by Ray DaviesThe Kinks Additional personnel