27.5 Ascension

As it was Ascension day, we suffered the usual Bible reading. What hypocrisy exists in the form of our school assembly. Were I a religionist, I would take more serious objection...a group of masters stand on a platform, some bad, fewer good and the majority ugly. Prayers are said, after Wood has controlled the noise by two claps of the hand and a hearty nervous twitch, after the hymn. This consists of the large majority of the school standing and not taking part as their conscience dictates, yet forced to stand with an open hymn book. A man will say prayers for Capitalism, complacency and the Queen. Often prayers are said for patience and tolerance by a man representing others who spit in the face of the two scared virtues..after which he (WHB) has been known to beat senseless a pupil in the first lesson. I think Goneril put it aptly: “Sick, O! Sick!” [Shakespeare 'King Lear']'