"By 14 he should have learnt all the ordinary principles of social behavior. He should know how to stand up and speak to a variety of different types of people -- to his own mother, to someone else's mother, to his father, to his schoolmasters, to servants, to Mahatma Gandhi or to the Viceroy, and to do this without any self-consciousness... At fourteen a boy should have constructed a framework of competence in language, in mathematical ability, and in social behavior. After that age he is, as it were, filling in a design to the framework. In short he learning to exercise taste... At 16, he acquired taste, a sense of the beautiful and the ugly, of the strong and the weak, of good and evil... At 17 must come another quality, less instinctive and requiring a maturer mind: he must acquire a capacity for judgement."
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Quoted in an essay in The Doon School Sixty Years On, published by the Doon School Old Boys' Society, October 1996.
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The Doon School is an independent boys' boarding school in Dehradun, India, and was founded in 1935. The Old boys of Doon are commonly known as "Doscos", and include some of India's prominent politicians, government officials, business leaders and a Prime Minister.
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