"Any descendant of Francis Charteris might pass through the same institutional furnaces as their ancestor, but they’d be smelted and beaten into a very different alloy."
I attended an American public school in the early 1970s, Choate Rosemary Hall. I passed through a furnace all right, but instead of emerging as a super alloy I came out squashed for life. Institutionalized emotional neglect on the part of the faculty and administration and a pathologically unfriendly student body broke me.
"Any descendant of Francis Charteris might pass through the same institutional furnaces as their ancestor, but they’d be smelted and beaten into a very different alloy."
I attended an American public school in the early 1970s, Choate Rosemary Hall. I passed through a furnace all right, but instead of emerging as a super alloy I came out squashed for life. Institutionalized emotional neglect on the part of the faculty and administration and a pathologically unfriendly student body broke me.