Different Class: A proles' guide to the elite private schools that churn out our leaders – with Andrew Harrison and Robert Verkaik

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Private schools have been responsible for educating a broad spread of political leaders. What’s going on in this weird world of elite education? To make sense of public schools and their staggering influence within the UK government and beyond, Andrew Harrison talks to Robert Verkaik, author of Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain, in The Bunker. • “It’s bizarre when you think that one school can be as influential in the running of the government as Eton has.” – Robert Verkaik • “These schools' sole purpose is to advance the life chances of children who are already incredibly privileged… which ultimately undermines our democracy.” – Robert Verkaik Buy Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production: Alex Rees. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.4	It was a very good one, the envy of the area and the headmaster ran it as if it was a grammar school,
1:17.7	even more a gown. Kids from lots of backgrounds got a great education.
1:21.6	Well I say lots of backgrounds, pretty everybody was Wights and C of E.
1:24.8	But there was a nice mix of working class kids to the lower middle classes
1:27.7	and our school got plenty of us into university back when that wasn't necessarily a given.
1:31.9	What it didn't do, what it couldn't do
1:34.2	was educate us prols in the Byzantine incomprehensible
1:38.1	world of private education, of the elite public schools
1:41.3	who supposed training for leadership, inculcation of entitlement
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