Hello: ....and fagging, beatings, OTC, compulsory games, nightly prep., prefects, chapel, the list, looking back, is endless. English Public schools, as experienced into the 1960s, were little changed from 100years previously. The happiest days of one's life?
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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This brings back memories of one's American and English boarding school days. I ate many a meal in such rooms in my youth.
I've got antlers up in my post today too, for the sake if deceny I won't go for the obvious quip
Hello:
....and fagging, beatings, OTC, compulsory games, nightly prep., prefects, chapel, the list, looking back, is endless. English Public schools, as experienced into the 1960s, were little changed from 100years previously. The happiest days of one's life?
Not exactly the Detroit Public Schools, is it?
@ Robert - Thank God. I'm sure Detroit Public Schools are far more brutal...
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