326, 327.
(Testimony of two university graduates.) "The great college virtue is comradeship, which comprises a bond of union among the pupils and hatred of the master." (Bessot:) "Punishment irritates those who undergo it and engenders punishment.

The pupils become wearied: they fall into a state of mute irritability coupled with contempt for the system itself and for those who apply it.

Unruliness furnishes them with the means of avenging themselves or at least to relax their nerves; they commit disorders whenever they can commit them with impunity....

The interdiction of an act by authority is sufficient to excite the glory of committing it." (A.Adam, "Notes sur l'administration du'un lycee.")--Two independent and original minds have recounted their impressions on this subject, one, Maxime Du Camp, who passed through the lycee system, and the other, George Sand, who would not tolerate if for her son.

(Maxime Du Camp, "Souvenirs litteraires," and George Sand, "Histoire de ma vie.")] [Footnote 6362: All this was in 1890, a long time ago, and if there was much to learn then, how much do we not have to learn now?
It helped, however, to reduce the curriculum, that Latin and Greek was removed from middle and senior high school programs and that international Socialism through the Politically Correct movement, either forbade or rewrote history, art and literature.