Paths

Different schools have different ideas of how paths should work.

At the first school we visited, an alumnus had created an endowment to lay paths. He just insisted that the paths be placed wherever people had worn tracks into the grass, so that the paths seemed not very well planned, until you noticed that there was always a path right where you wanted to walk.

At this place, the paths were laid out according to some Pythagorean/Cartesian plan that looked wonderful but probably didn't help much, until they added little branch paths where the people actually ended up walking.

There's a lesson, there. In the end, people are going to ignore the 'keep off the grass' signs, and walk where they want. You can either put the pavement where it will get used, or you can resist human nature and put paths where no one will walk on them. There's no point, because in the end, the people will win and you'll end up paving where they walk.