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to all of us, but most of all to soldiers. We see that in a 

 good school there are all the rough essentials of organ- 

 ization and training. It is a corporate body, and the boys 

 when at school are different from what they are at home. 

 They think differently and feel differently, and that means 

 they are different. Thus parents and schoolmasters may 

 have very different opinions of the same boy, and what is 

 more, the parent may be right if his son chooses some more 

 solitary profession, while the master may be right if the 

 boy goes into the army or navy. Many of you, no doubt, 

 remember the sense of loyalty to your own school which 

 grew up in spite of the brutality of a few of your fellows, 

 and also in spite of the peculiar hostility which you felt 

 towards some, if not all, the masters. And yet, if they 

 were at all decent, you would have been ready to maintain 

 they were better " beasts " than those of any other school. 

 This feeling of semi-hostility between the trainer and the 

 trained is, perhaps, essential for good results. It implies 

 resisting stuff in those who are being moulded and organized. 

 With good tools you can forge anything out of steel, but not 

 much can be made of putty. 



Possibly you now begin to recognize some strange 

 resemblance between your own feelings as officers in train- 

 ing with those you had as a schoolboy. Day by day you 

 are learning to suppress that part of yourself which for ever 

 contends you have the right to do exactly as you please. 

 You do not go about insisting on your rights. It is not 

 good form to do so, and that means it does not really pay 

 any one to be selfish. Perhaps, too, you have begun to 

 see why you must be young to be trained. The very old 

 are mostly set and rigid, and cannot easily rid them- 

 selves of ancient ideas. At any school a boy who has not 

 been trained to obedience at home has a hard time before 



