Just a few more lines on the voiceless school. L.
Everything, but everything, was a sin. And certainly if anything was "fun" it was definitely a sin! LOL. We heard a lot about "entertaining bad thoughts" (aren't bad thoughts SO entertaining LOL!), and occasions of sin (geeze we never saw a man from one end of term to the other, except maybe our fathers or sometimes a brother), so any occasions of sin would be few and far between.
But worse than all that was the constant being "put in your place", not being allowed a voice, no dissent, being often wrongly accused, and not being able to even say: " I did not do that". I know some of us were really "downed" because it was obvious we were not cowed by that kind of treatment. Again, as with all tyrants, it is about power.
Since you could not put up a defense, in my case I developed "the look". (I am told I still produce it at times LOL). I just looked down my nose at them as they harangued me, and that really just got to them. I never cried, and I remember school friends whispering to me:; "Don't give them the satisfaction of seeing any tears". Neither did I ever cry on returning there after the holidays, as many girls did. I would hear girls crying under the covers in the dormitory at night, and I was determined that I would never do that. So, I was disliked for not giving them the satisfaction of showing any sign of hurt.
Of course, all of this was happening in the name of "religion", "god", "our lord". I call it sheer craziness.
All the best
Hermes
I don't think I learnt anything about morality there, it now seems to me like very amoral teaching.
Sure, from an intellectual viewpoint, the education was good. Still, I feel that a little sympathy towards the pupils, all in that difficult time that is the teens, would have gone a long way to providing a good emotional education.
