Charles Cornish-Dale (Raw Egg Nationalist)

But actually, you've got to realize that the people grading these papers are also the people teaching the children.

This is the classroom.

This is, you know, 100 percent of classroom life is like this, where actually if you are a boy, you're kind of you're squashed and obviously unfairly, obviously unfairly.

And it has serious effects, you know.

Yeah, well, it's a striking feature of traditional societies that they all have these rites of passage.

You get to a certain age as a boy, and then you're taken off into the wild.

You have to fend for yourself with other boys of your own age, and then you come back to the group, you're reintegrated, and then you're an adult man.

It's meant to be a test of fortitude.

It bonds the young men together through suffering, through hardship, and it prepares them then for the next stage of life.

We don't actually have real rites of passage in our society anymore.

I mean, it's very noticeable.

I mean, we have a few, like maybe you go to school, you graduate from school, maybe you go to college, you graduate from college, you get married, maybe, if you're lucky now.

But we don't actually have a really kind of fleshed out sense of...

the kind of ritual nature of preparation and that we actually need to do more than we're doing in order to prepare young men to be men.

We need to give them examples.

And we also need to set them tests.

And I don't just mean, you know, sit down writing tests, you know, writing essays, multiple choice, answering questions.

I mean, like physical tests, tests of hardship.

Tasks, yeah.

Yeah, tests of courage and character.