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Public Schools and Private Education - The Clarendon Commission 1861-64 and the Public Schools Acts (Paperback, New)
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Public Schools and Private Education - The Clarendon Commission 1861-64 and the Public Schools Acts (Paperback, New)
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The great public schools are central to any discussion of English
secondary education. Founded as public endowments, they are the
basis of private education. Set apart from the other grammar
schools by the Clarendon Commission of 1861, their influence on the
state system has been enormous. Severed from the national provision
of public education, they have put prestige and ancient endowments
at the service of wealth and patronage. This book, available in
paperback for the first time, shows how this came to pass. How the
schools' attempts at reform, reliance on fees, the defence of the
Classics, public criticism of Eton, European ideas and foreign
economic competition led to the Carendon Commission. How Lord
Clarendon himself, in conflict with Palmerston over foreign policy,
came to lead the Commission and attempt curricular reform. How the
Public Schools Acts created a separate school system for the
benefit of Eton and how the Lords sought to establish that system
for the upper classes. How the fee-paying, class-based principles
of the Commission influenced the other grammar schools and all
later English education. How the Public schools Acts reduced the
influence of local parents and how new governors were appointed
nationally. How Shrewsbury School, an example of an endowed grammar
school with strong local connections, came to be part of the public
school system. It is not the conflict between state education and
private schools that makes so much discussion of English education
bitter and controversial. It is the loss to state education of the
public schools - the original political purpose of the Acts - and
the impoverishment of national education by the class divisions of
Victorian legislation. -- .
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