Boarding schools having changed, dramatically one hears, Connolly's remarks probably have no bearing on Cameron's adolescent, school-minded etc record in government, ditto Johnson's.
It follows, Connolly continued, "that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental and in the last analysis homosexual".
Their work over the past year has included erotic artbook images with the smutty bits sandpapered out, exploring the commodification of art through the medium of dance, telling circuitous personal stories live to an appreciative but perhaps baffled audience and, for the more old school-minded, screen printing.
In fact, national statistics show that half of medical school-minded students are taking at least one gap year, he says.
Verkerk is a journalist of the old school — tough-minded, wiry, a smoker.
The school reform-minded plaintiffs vow to appeal.
Thanks to reform-minded school leadership, the public school system has improved and become a magnet for teacher talent.
In this it matches the personality of its third protagonist, Mariza Estrella, the school's tough-minded founder.
The originators of these ideas are a loose school of like-minded academics, mostly Americans and either social psychologists or behavioural economists.
Reform-minded school leaders took the opposite approach, insisting that students in the South Bronx should be held to the same standards as kids in Scarsdale.
There are certain steps a reform-minded school system can take to improve the quality of education, like adding teachers, cutting bureaucracy and introducing a new curriculum.
