Summary
All the same, we do not want the nation's schools to become mere imitators of them, upholding bogus public-school standards instead of developing their own. There are advantages in day-school education. Oscillating between home and school, the secondary schoolboy has greater freedom to develop: he does not take such a uniform stamp: he has room to call his soul his own.
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The prosperous 19th century, with a rising middle-class and the enormous size of the Victorian family, led to a great increase in the number of public schools. There are too many now, with the decline of the birth-rate and in the incomes of the middle-clas...
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