I think it&#x27;s pretty clear that what a military-style school can bring to the table is a stand-in for paternal care to children without fathers, or with bad fathers.  Traditional schooling doesn&#x27;t really instil confidence or pride, in my experience; it&#x27;s much more about not rocking the boat, or rocking the boat in the way that the administrators would prefer (which, of course…isn&#x27;t rocking the boat).<p>As mapt elsethread indicates, these things can go wrong, just as the traditional, maternal school system goes wrong (zero tolerance?  students disrespecting teachers‽).