Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain‘The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones’s Chavs.’ –Andrew Marr, Sunday Times ‘In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects of the elite schools and their product’s domination of public life for two and a half centuries: the acquiescence of everyone else.’ –Observer In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich and poor is now greater than ever before. Is this the country we want to live in? If we care about inequality, we have to talk about public schools. Robert Verkaik issues a searing indictment of the system originally intended to educate the most underprivileged Britons, and outlines how, through meaningful reform, we can finally make society fairer for all. |
Contents
Nurseries of Aristocracy | |
Empire of the Sons | |
A Victorian Reckoning | |
Eton Rifles | |
Survival of the Fittest | |
You Go to School? | |
Boys Own Brexit | |
For the Few Not the Many | |
The Class Ladder | |
Dormitories of Abuse | |
Bad Charity | |
All That Glitters | |
The Entitlement Complex | |
Churchill the Public School Reformer | |
PostWar Privilege | |
Education Education Education | |
Bad Education | |
A Class Apart | |
The Dissolution of the Public Schools | |
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