In other words,we were very well regimented, and this was looked upon as absolutely normal by the society of the day.
I am not going to say that it was such a bad idea either, but that is neither here nor there.
So I am perfectly in tune with the habit of obedience that is mentioned.
However,I do not think that this habit persisted in its entirity into the senior years at school.
At my high school, the upper school was considered almost a seperate world from the grubs in the junior school.
Senior ‘men’ were expected to have gained maturity,and to have achieved a certain amount of independence, discrimination and common sense.