![]() McCrum gained some attention with his programs at Tonbridge. The new headmaster - whose job is regarded as the peak of the teaching pro fession in the prop schools here - was formerly head master for seven years of the Tonbridge School at Sher borne, 120 miles west of Lon don. McCrum, a naval officer's son who served aboard a battleship in the Mediterranean during World War II “Television and the media have had an impact in England. “The lifestyle of the young cuts across all classes - they're wearing the same clothes, listening to the same music, engaging in the same activities.” said Mr. Within the past 10 years the wealthy young have especially blurred the class structure. “The tendency to specialize in classics or languages or the sciences is changing be cause boys simply don't want to make their minds up as early as they used to.”Įton's effort to break down tradition and build social awareness among its stu dents, aged 13 to 18, under lines the shifting role and needs of the aristocracy, whose power has steadily waned with the rise of indus try, state schools, the pro fessional civil service and estate taxes. “We'll be tending more to ward the American pattern with less specialization in the senior years,” he said. McCrum said he would follow the example of Ameri can prep schools and shift the curriculum. Compared with other prep, or as they are called here, “public,” schools, Eton remains the most socially prestigious, opening doors for graduates in government banking and industry. Crewe was gradu ated from Eton in 1944.Įton is believed to be the wealthiest privately support ed school in Britain, with medieval endowments paying for a sizable share of the up keep. Others have been critical “We were snobs, a little anti Semitic and sure that we should rule,” Quentin Crewe, a prominent British journal ist, recalled several years ago. “Eton is proud not so much of its scholastic achieve ments as of its breadth of interest, and its capacity to produce happy eccentrics of all kinds, giving more em phasis to self‐expression than to ambition,” said Anthony Sampson in his book on con temporary England, “Anat omy of Britain Today.” Macmillan and the Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas Home, to Lord Keynes, the economist, George Orwell, Cyril Connolly and Aldous Huxley, the writers and Julian Huxley, the biologist. Eton's graduates range from former Prime Minister Harold M. The students and the staff want this.”Įton's tradition‐bound past is underlined by the school's alumni, who include 18 prime ministers and 65 current members of Parliament. But with this, we've got to extend the social boundaries of the school. “A lot of the students do go into the stock exchange or take over the family's estate. “More than 60 per cent of our students have fathers who came here,” he said. McCrtun, a Cambridge graduate and for mer teacher who was co author of “Select Documents of the Principates of the Fla vian Emperors A.D. ![]() “A lot of people see Eton's exclusiveness as socially divi sive,” said Mr. It is not lip service to egalitarianism.” “We want a wide range of students,” said Mr. ![]()
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