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Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s – this books shows how they were in the late 1980s. It is based on fieldwork in two major public... Read more
List of tables. Acknowledgements. 1. Public Schools and Independent Schools. 2. Everyday Life in Public Schools. 3. Home From Home – the boys. 4. Goodbye, Mr Chips – the schoolmasters. 5. The Medieval Baron in His Castle – the Public School Housemaster. 6. Girls in a Male World. 7. Women in a Male World. 8. Examinations and the Formal Curriculum. 9. A Revolution in Chains. 10. Life in Public Schools? Bibliography. Indices.
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Geoffrey Walford
