headmaster
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presiding officer of a school
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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
When I was teaching, the headmaster told me "You know, the sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it."
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.
I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.
The master is the master and the owner is the headmaster.
After the matter came to light, Gagan Bihari Swain, the headmaster of the school, lodged a complaint in this regard.