English Public Schools

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“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 3 (1991)