I also had to admit that my education would be improved and I would get more opportunities.I had the summer to say my goodbyes to my old mates and the...n I was taken to my new school. My parents flew out the next day.The school was in an old very impressive building and I was duly impressed. I met the head who was a tall man at least 6’ 3” and very muscular. Despite his imposing presence he was very nice and made me feel welcome. I was introduced to my housemaster Mr Brook who was quite. I thinkcompanies at Parkworth are analogous to fraternities at a college oruniversity. The culture at Parkworth is one of competition betweencompanies. Within the company there was a lot of peer pressure toconform and to work to achieve the goals of the team, rather than topursue individual goals. Older members of the company looked after andtrained the younger boys. As a result, the school was largely self-governing, freeing the faculty and administration to focus on theeducational mission. "A single appearance, a single set of opinions, a single purpose. They're atotalitarian regime, a religious cult and a zombie plague all rolled intoone.Egerton wasn't making any of that up. But it still strikes me as somethingyou'd only expect to find in an episode of Doctor Who."I'm not sure I follow you. How can that happen? What's the mechanism thatbrings it about?"Susan shakes her head. She might be a Geography mistress trying to explainthe principles of Central Place Theory to a class of. The new piece jostled its way into the ring, and it looked for a second as if it was going to settle in, but suddenly it faltered, and the smooth progression of the stones faltered, as stones began to wobble in their orbits, dipping down or straying out away from the rest of the stones."Ack!" Andy hollered suddenly, and the entire spinning ensemble flew apart before dropping to the ground around us."Not bad Son, but you're still running into the problem of trying to steer each stone like you.
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