Showing posts with label British public schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British public schools. Show all posts
George Monbiot is less than impressed by boarding schools.

Boarding school, a peculiarly British form of abuse, has devastating impacts not only on the boarders, but on those they grow up to dominate.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th November 2019

There are two stark facts about British politics. The first is that they are controlled, to a degree unparalleled in any other Western European nation, by a tiny, unrepresentative elite. Like almost every aspect of public life here, government is dominated by people educated first at private schools, then at either Oxford or Cambridge.

The second is that many of these people possess a disastrous set of traits: dishonesty, class loyalty and an absence of principle. The current Prime Minister exemplifies them. What drives him? What enables such people to dominate us? We urgently need to understand a system that has poisoned the life of this nation for over a century.

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The Unlearning

Mick Hall @ Organized Rage queries the British public school system.

Writing in the Independent Ben Chu points out the mainstream media especially the Mail and Murdoch media relishes exposing charity 'fat cats' and highlighting galling examples of luxury and excess in the not-for-profit sector. But there’s one fat-cat charity scandal these outlets have totally ignored.

The Great British Public School Rip Off