S2E42: Public schools and ‘Manliness’

Public schools, which are in reality private boarding schools for the upper-class children, took off in the UK in the nineteenth century.
One of their contributions was that they produced scores of politicians and administrators who later ran the country and held it together with the British empire. HistoryChatter in this episode examines how the students of major public schools in England were systematically groomed into particular ideologies by their charismatic headmasters.

It looks also into how later the particular ideals of ‘leadership’ taught in these schools came to be cherished in the colonies. Such boarding schools Have long been considered the best place to train the art of effective leadership the children from wealthy families.

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