- Values Dissonance: Father O'Malley rewards a boy for beating a classmate unprovoked, and justifies this by saying it's necessary to teach "manliness."
- Values Resonance: On the other hand, Father O'Malley proposes that even students who fail spectacularly should still be passed to avoid hurting their feelings, which plays far less outrageously in today's participation-trophy culture than it did in 1945.
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