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WCDT Strips 3071 to 3075 (19th - 23rd October 2K15)
cesium133:
I've always found it confusing when people from the UK use the term "public school" to mean private school.
Method of Madness:
Right? What do they call public schools then?
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 22 Oct 2015, 07:58 ---Right? What do they call public schools then?
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State Schools since the State is the one paying the cost of the education as opposed to the (rich) public paying the cost at the Public Schools.
DSL:
--- Quote from: DashaBlade on 21 Oct 2015, 22:15 ---Oh, c'mon May. Everyone knows hypocrisy is humanity's greatest sport. Ignorance is strictly minor league in comparison. :-P
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Ignorance is the sport. Hypocrisy is the playbook.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 22 Oct 2015, 07:40 ---I've always found it confusing when people from the UK use the term "public school" to mean private school.
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Originally, the nobility employed tutors to educate their children privately. The church then set up schools at which those not able to employ tutors could purchase education for their children - they were publicly available to those who could pay (junior nobility, wealthy merchants...), hence "Public Schools". Many British Public Schools are the continuation of foundations set up in Tudor times under the aegis of Henry VIII - hence the large number of schools called "The King's School" in different places (my school was nominally one such, but additionally claimed continuity with an earlier foundation going back to the religious order set up in Canterbury by St Augustine in 693, making it the oldest school in Britain).
By contrast, state schools are only available to those living within their catchment area - they are not publicly available in a general sense.
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