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Society’s Challenge to Build Character

Sep 9th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Issues

The first headmaster of Stowe school, J F Roxburgh, declared his goal to be turning out young men who would be “acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck”. A mixture of courtesy and courage used to be essential to the idea of a British citizen’s character. Brits were the sort of people who [...]