The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General's Award wasn't something I even thought to wish for.
There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.