Britain has a very particular relationship with private schools.

They're almost part of the national character.

Around the world, it's famed for being home to some of the oldest, most prestigious schools,

with their own, often eccentric traditions.

Last and there was St Andrews Day,

which apart from being sacred to all scots, is a great day at Eaton College.

When a peculiar form of football is played to rules that very few people comprehend,

the wall game, to watch this traditional stuff.

We're told the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton,

a school which has produced more than a third of our Prime Ministers and the future King.

And now, these schools are becoming one of Britain's greatest exports.

Anyone who's made enough money, anywhere in the world,

wants their children to be educated at a British private school.

Eaton College is breaking new ground in the world of online education.

Britain's most exclusive boarding school aims to export its brand for stop China.

But in Britain, private schools have long been a source of heated debate.

Back in 1948, the writer George Orwell,

an old attorney himself, thought these schools couldn't last much longer.

And the great social chronicler of our age, Alan Bennett, hasn't held back either.

My objection to private education is simply put,

it is not fair.

And to say that nothing is fair is not an answer.

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