The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.
We wanted to be accepted by our fellows, especially the influential natural leaders among us; and the ethos of my peers was _ until my last year at Oundle _ anti-intellectual. You had to pretend to be working less hard than you actually were. Native ability was respected; hard work was not. It was the same on the sports field. Sportsmen were admired more than scholars in any case. But if you could achieve sporting brilliance without training, so much the better. Why is native ability more admired than hard graft? Shouldn__ it be the other way around?
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We wanted to be accepted by our fellows, especially the influential natural leaders among us; and the ethos of my peers was _ until my last year at Oundle _ anti-intellectual. You had to pretend to be working less hard than you actually were. Native ability was respected; hard work was not. It was the same on the sports field. Sportsmen were admired more than scholars in any case. But if you could achieve sporting brilliance without training, so much the better. Why is native ability more admired than hard graft? Shouldn__ it be the other way around?
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