Yes, we were privileged. We had great places to go in the holidays and some weekends. There was always an end in sight, relief from the drudgery, excursions to go on, activities at school, musical choral evenings, prayer meetings, church. My education flourished in areas other than academic.
In retrospect, I am amazed that parents from such wealthy and luxurious background put their children into such institutions. It is designed to teach great lessons for them to carry forth into life. Austerity, servitude and humility may indeed be valuable tools to carry forth but stark conditions, bulky food and suppression of the spirit can be supplied to children by many institutions, but these parents do so by choice and pay top fees for it and expect gratitude for the sentence.
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