ain at home. 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. I know this because I
was one for 32 years of my life. I suspect it also fits members of the
police forces, secret or not. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6355: Act of Jan. 11, 1811.--Decree of March 17, 1808,
articles 101 and 102.]

[Footnote 6356: Boissier ("Revue du Deux Mondes," Aug. 15, 1869, p.
919): "The externe lycees cost and the interne lycees bring in."]

[Footnote 6357: "Statistique de l'enseigncnient secondaire" (46,816
pupils, of which 33,092 internes and 13,724 externes).--Abbe Bougaud,
"Le Grand Peril de l'Eglise du France," p. 135.--"Moniteur," March 14,
1865, Speech of Cardinal Bonnechose in the Senate.]

[Footnote 6358: Name of the navy school-ship at Brest.--TR.]

[Footnote 6359: Breal, "Quelques mots, etc.," p. 308: "We need not be
surprised that our children, once out of the college, resemble horses
just let loose, kicking at every barrier and committing all sorts of
capers. The age of reason has been artificially retarded for them five
or six years."]

[Footnote 6360: On the tone and turn of conversation among boys in
school on this subject in the upper classes and even earlier, I can
do no more than appeal to the souvenirs of the reader.--Likewise,
on another danger of the internat, not les