Quotation
“Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.”
John Andrew Holmes
The idea behind the quotation
The quote suggests that boys naturally resist rules, and that letting them follow their own instincts could change society so radically that even adult revolutionaries would be intimidated.
Vocabulary in context
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