English Education in the Elementary And Secondary Schools
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The discipline, though strict, does not seem to be irksome. One seldom hears of any grumbling at it, or the talk so common in America that boys should be " put on their honor," with a continued state of incipient discontent or rebellion. It is accepted by all as a matter of course. The life, as a whole, is intensely enjoyed, and nowhere else in the world is there such extreme and undoubted THE GREAT "PUBLIC SCHOOLS." 137 loyalty to the schools. The tone is almost too loyal ; the feeling that ev...erything is just right delays changes and reforms, and English schools are apt to lag behind those of the Continent and America in the adoption of the improvements which the age brings about. The conservative tone there begotten lasts through university life, and shows its marked influence there. " There has not been a political re- form adopted during the present century which the universities have not petitioned against," was an un- challenged statement at a recent university dinner- table. It lasts beyond the university, and the ranks of the conservative parties of Church and state and society are largely composed of public-school boys.
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