Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
humanodon · 4263 days ago · link · · parent · post: Barry Garelick: Let's Go Back to Grouping Students by Ability
"Proles" often go to Exeter as well as Andover. Yes, it's a WASPy school, but its existence is hardly proof of a conspiracy. I should also add, that a lot of people I've met that went to these schools end up just as dopey and lost as the rest of us that went to public school.
The point is /not/ that PA is evidence of conspiracy. But PA and its cultural milieu is barely, if at all, reflected in the non-elite (youth) culture and norms. Recall the time when Latin was the preserve of the clerics. Not all the monks were noble born, but all were integrated into the exclusive system. (That's because the social context has been degraded.)