"School life was a life almost wholly dominated by the social struggle; to get on, to arrive, or, having reached the top, to remain there, was the absorbing preoccupation."
"...and from it, all sorts of meaness flow; the sycophancy [a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage (you didn't know...)] that courts those higher in the scale, the cultivation of those whom it is well to know, the speedy abandonment of friendships that will not help on the upward path, the readiness to join the cry against the unpopular, the secret motive in almost every action."
"...for this games were played; for this clothes, friends, amusements, and vices were chosen."
"...It would perhaps not be too much to say that in some boys' lives everything was calculated to the great end of advancement."
C.S.Lewis Surprised by Joy
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