‘Mr Bodkin, miss, so I understand from the ties in his drawer, was educated at Eton. That’s where he’s handicapped in these matters. Eton, as you may have heard, is one of our English public schools, and the English public school system,’ said Albert, warming to a subject to which he had given a good deal of thought, 'isn’t at all what an educational system should be. It lacks practicality and inspiration. If you ask me, they don’t learn the little perishers nothing.’
P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins 1935. So there’s nothing new about it.
(In case it’s necessary to explain to readers outwith these islands, the English public schools are exclusive private schools, which continue to provide the UK with a disproportionate number of senior politicians, judges and other leading establishment figures.)
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