class-opinion

Updated: July 21, 2025

In middle schools the pupils become serious: class-opinion there attains a force to which the teacher himself must bend, as it is quite capable of expelling him for any attempt to override it. Each middle-school class has its elected officers, who represent and enforce the moral code of the majority, the traditional standard of conduct.

Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation