New book reveals the perils of public schools
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This and other interesting "not many people know this" facts are included in The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School by the former Financial Times education correspondent David Turner. As late as 1930, a boy took his own life because he could no longer face the treatment meted out to "fags" by older boys. In their infancy, public schools concentrated on giving their charges an almost non-stop diet of Latin and Greek – so much so that Richard Busby, the headmaster of Westminster between 1638 and 1695, was considered an oddball for encouraging his charges to study maths.
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