It was my impression that this school had two effects upon me: the first that I wanted, in spite of good grades, to stop my studies and get a job and the second that I became, like Taine, an opponent to the system.

Later on in life I should come to appreciate all the useful things like languages, literature, math and physics which I had learned in this well-organized school.

I also came to understand that much worse than harsh discipline is no discipline and no learning at all, something which happened to my children when they attended, for one year only, the American School in Bangkok.

(SR.)] [Footnote 6353: Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au Conseil d'Etat," p.172.

(Session of April 7, 1807:) "The professors are to be transferred from place to place in the Empire according to necessity." -- Decree of May 1, 1802, article 21: "The three functionaries in charge of the administration and the professors of the lycees may be transferred from the weakest to the strongest lycees and from inferior to superior places according to the talent and zeal they show in their functions."] [Footnote 6354: A splendid description which also fits the international civil servants working for the United Nations.