Personally I used to think my school a
very decent sort of place, but I looked forward with excitement and
interest to the liberty and life of the larger world; and though
perhaps in a way we elders envied the boys for having the chances
before them that we had so many of us neglected to seize, I don't
suppose that with the parable of Vice Versa before us we would
really have changed places with them. Would any one ever return
willingly to discipline and barrack-life? [Yes--ed.] Would any one
under discipline refuse independence if it were offered him on easy
terms? I doubt it!
Then the Bishop went on to talk about educational things; and he
said with much emphasis that in spite of all that was said about
modern education, we most of us realised as we grew older that all
culture was really based upon the Greek and Latin classics. We all
stamped on the ground and cheered at that, I as lustily as the
rest, though I am quite sure it is not true. All that the Bishop
really meant was that such culture as he himself possessed had been
based on the classics.
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