U.K. PUBLIC SCHOOLS
T.U.C. Urges Abolition (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, March 27. Private education—including “public schools” such as Eton—should be abolished, the general council of the Trade Union Council told the Public Schools’ Commission in evidence published yesterday. The council said it believed fee-paying public school education is “socially undesirable, as well as damaging in its effects upon the public education system.” The commission’s terms of reference seemed to imply the continued existence of the public schools with some modifications, the council said. Public school education differed from other forms of secondary education in the traditions and values upon which it was based and in the social purposes it was intended to serve. “It is designed to equip its recipients to take their places in an occupationally and social privileged elite,” said the council. “The public schools exist to provide it. Their pupils attend because their parents wish them to acquire it.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31329, 28 March 1967, Page 13
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