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   "JOHNNY SHARP"  writes:   
      
   > "AIR COMMODORE RAYMOND"  wrote in message   
   > news:dc0179$bk9$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...   
      
   >> Why then did he have he son's name down for Eton?*   
   >   
   > Anyone? Anyone?....   
      
     In another year or so I shall have to be thinking about Richard's   
     schooling, but I am not making any plans because one can't see far   
     ahead now.  I am not going to let him go to a boarding school   
     before he is ten, and I would like him to start off at the   
     elementary school.  If I could find a good one.  It's a difficult   
     question.  Obviously it is democratic for everyone to go to the   
     same schools, or at least start off there but when you see what   
     the elementary schools are like, and the results, you feel that   
     any child that has the chance should be rescued from them.  It is   
     quite easy, for instance, to leave those schools at 14 without   
     having learned to read.[...]  I remember in 1936 meeting John   
     Strachey in the street -- then a CP member or at least on the   
     staff of the _Worker_ -- and him telling me he had just had a son   
     and was putting him down for Eton.  I said "How can you do that?"   
     and he said that given our existing society it was the best   
     education.  Actually I doubt whether it is the best, but in   
     principle I don't feel sure that he was wrong.   
                               -- to Julian Symonds (1948); CEJL IV:451   
      
   I wrote in the margin some years ago: "Welcome to New York, Mr   
   Orwell".   
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