Make the iron hot by striking it.

May 3, 2013
"Make the iron hot by striking it
鉄は、打って熱くしろ。
Oliver Cromwell
English military and political leader
1599-1658
The school I went had a long hallway where they kept the lockers.
The American tradition is to keep your books in your locker and pick them up
to your next class.  Books were usually heavy to carry them back and forth from school,
so most students kept their books in their lockers. I carry them home on foot.  It took me twenty minutes walk but I liked to carry them home.
 Later ink my life, my Lutheran minster whom I studied together in the
Japanese university visited my school and mentioned that the calmness and darkness of the hallway
gives concentration and focus to study in monastery style Catholic schools and we have that.
Until then I never realize the good point of this hallway.  We got it whether we realized it or not.
How was your school set up and did you carry books home?
gto