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Most people believe that independent schools offer their pupils advantages that state schools don’t. Some think this is unfair. Others will go to the edge of ruin to get the ‘best’ education for their children.
Known as independent school, suggesting initiative and enterprise instead of snobbery and prejudice. The backgrounds of the pupils are far from aristocratic.
Educational program: Latin, Greek, craft design technology, science laboratories, Russian, computer sciences, modern teaching techniques in all subjects.
Discipline: don’t beat any boys, try to encourage them to treat other people as they would be treated, are very fussy about courtesy, and punish the boys by making them do smth for the community (clearing up all the litter over the main public streets)
Extra-curriculum activities: principle to educate “the whole man”, teaching acting, music, art, technology, all the kinds of games you could possibly think of, society life-debating societies, science societies, philosophy societies, chapel services, communion services.
Although most Western countries have independent school sectors, the British public school system is unique in the extent to which it is set apart from the rest of the nation. This isolation is possible because the private sector in Britain is remarkably small. Around 5% of the nation’s schoolchildren go private, while in the USA the figure is 10%, and in France is 30%. The majority of the nation’s Cabinet Ministers, top civil servants, ambassadors, High Court judges, military leaders went to public schools.
