I think that it's grossly overstated that one needs to have contact with the opposite sex right through the wholeoflife, in the classroom and outside the classroom and at all ages.
Some time later, I learned about these statuettes. The headmaster had placed them where they would face delinquent children, because they symbolized to him to wholeoflife.
When we are stripped down to a certain point, nothing leads anywhere anymore, hope and despair are equally groundless, and the wholeoflife can be summed up in an image.