Public schools: the facts of life
Sir: Whatever a public school may have to offer, it is certainly not, as Mr Raven argues (30 June), an education in `the facts of life.' No cloistered introspective institution such as I attended could be further from reality, and I am truly sorry for Mr Raven if he can seriously dismiss `Mummy's loving kiss' in a cloud of derision. How can he pretend that a world deprived of the love and grace of femininity is a mirror of the real world outside?
I can only confirm from bitter experience that in order to preserve one's identity and survive the artificial claustrophobic pressures, at an early age many are forced to prostitute all they feel to be true in favour of Mr Raven's maxim 'manners not morals maketh man.' This may have suited the Spartan purpose, but one does not need to be a Christian even to realise that nothing is or need be remote from what Mr Raven calls `reality'!
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