----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net>
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.
----------- I'm familiar with just one such, Orwell's "such...such were the joys"
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/joys/english/e_joys
But I thought progressive education had come to the elite schools & that there was more coddling and nurturing than brute force these days....
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Joanna