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“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit. LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her. HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.”

Way May Mean Country School Law Young Spirit Turns Girl Church Cities Break Fine Citizens Honor Letters Satisfied Helpful Village Loyal Simplest Giver Dependable

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.”

Men May Has Beens Stills Today School Given Gone Honor Ethics Professors Graduates Elites 1960s Scholarship Reserved Yale Graduate School Wasps

Author:Camille Paglia

“I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.”

Wells School Honor Smart Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.”

Ifs Want Feels School Guy Asks Difficult Player Risk Team Honor Debt Coaches Coaching Injury Staff Tigers Difficult Things Lsu Coaching Staff

Author:Les Miles

“It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.”

Should School Class Boys Students Honor High School My Favorite Obvious Honor Roll

Book:Who Asked You?

Source: Who Asked You?

“Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.”

Needs Feels Wells I Can School Can Do Acting Situation Honor Drama Training Feel Good Graduates I Can Do It Graduate School I Feel Good

Author:Andrea Anders

“In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.”

School Winning Individual Class Team Honor Weight Score Plus Awards Tournaments Opposing Wrestler You Re The Best

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.”

School Desire Quality Player Honor Authority Fairs Coaches Spectators Respectful Sportsmanship Courteous

Author:Fielding H. Yost