> At 04:59 PM 6/9/2011, Michael Smith wrote:
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> >The elites send their kids to institutions
> >which are just as totalizing and dehumanizing
> >as the KIPP schools; but the grounds look
> >nicer, and so do the teachers and the kids
> >themselves.
>
>
> Are you drunk or just being oh so provocative?
There's actually quite an extensive literature on the horrors of elite schooling. Consider the unintended revelations of Tom Brown's School Days. Trollope was miserable at bishop- breeding Winchester. As was Maugham at King's. There's plenty of similar material from American prep survivors. It's not an original observation on my part: These are not benign institutions. Though the grounds are often very nice.
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