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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gross stupidity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It was at a time<br>where you had <br>to wear a uniform to school, <br>had to cut your hair<br>to a predetermined length</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and got caned<br>if you were naughty, <br>failed a test, <br>or sometimes<br>to let the teacher<br>enforce his will.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">If you complained at home<br>about getting a hiding at school, <br>you would probably<br>get another there too<br>if you deserved it, <br>but if you were right, <br>were punished unfairly<br>or without a real cause</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">it was seen in a different light<br>and a teacher <br>or whoever the punisher was<br>would have to face<br>your father in a fight<br>and could easily<br>be hit into hospital.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">School regulations stipulated<br>that you couldn’t receive<br>more than six whippings on a day, <br>but at Estcourt high school<br>on my first day<br>at the new school<br>in standard nine (now grade eleven) <br>I received twelve.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We were lining up <br>to go to the hall<br>and a prefect told me<br>to cut my hair<br>which were just a bit<br>longer than how <br>they wanted it.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I said that I would<br>and while we were walking <br>to the entrance of the hall<br>I was told the same thing<br>over and over again.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">On the eighth time<br>I told the English prefect <br>in Afrikaans<br>not to catch the pip<br>which was a Afrikaans adage<br>for do not catch a fit.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He told me to repeat<br>what I had said, <br>which I did<br>and thought<br>that I was cursing him<br>and took me <br>to the Headboy<br>who was English.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Where I had to repeat<br>myself again<br>and I did<br>as believed in telling<br>the truth.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The head boy took me <br>to the principal, <br>(Mister Robert Smith) , <br>who thought<br>that I was saying <br>something like<br>go and play<br>with your member.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He called in the <br>vice-principal<br>(another Englishman) , <br>a man with a red beard, <br>who was convinced<br>that I was cursing, <br>who shoved my head<br>under a table<br>and whipped me six times.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When I explained what it meant<br>they didn’t believe me<br>and called in a teacher<br>who taught Afrikaans<br>and the principal gave me<br>another six whippings<br>for being insubordinate<br>and wanted to expel me<br>if I didn’t have my hair cut<br>on by the next day.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I didn’t tell my stepfather<br>(who wasn’t a dad to me) , <br>but even he<br>would have sorted<br>the headmaster<br>and vice-principal out<br>and it would have been<br>the Anglo-Boer war<br>all over again.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=398112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">At the time I thought<br>that I was grossly stupid, <br>but thinking back<br>the headmaster and vice-principal<br>was probably more so.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a></strong></div>