So long as the hypocrite realises that he is a hypocrite, there is hope for him.

But when hypocrisy develops into self-deception, the severance between outward and inward, between appearance and reality, is complete.
In a school which is ridden by the examination incubus, the whole atmosphere is charged with deceit.

The teacher's attempt to outwit the examiner is deceitful; and the immorality of his action is aggravated by the fact that he makes his pupils partners with him in his fraud.

The child who is being crammed for an examination, and who is being practised at the various tricks and dodges that will, it is hoped, enable him to throw dust in the examiner's eyes, may not consciously realise that he and his teacher are trying to perpetrate a fraud, but will probably have an instinctive feeling that he is being led into crooked ways.

If he has not that feeling, if the crooked ways seem straight in his eyes, we may know that his sense of reality is being poisoned by the vitiated atmosphere which he has been compelled to breathe.