Cub-hunting Notes FrOm a report in last week's Isis of
a discus- sion held by the Oxford University Labour Study Group on Secondary Education: If public schools are not outstandingly better academically than most state grammar schools, and this would appear to' be the case, many features arc positively reprehensible. The sense of elitism is fostered by the close ties which the families of twenty-five per cent of the boys have with their school, by the emphasis on 'team- spirit,' leadership, cadet force training (virtually compulsory throughout) and the Victorian stress on Religion, Service and Loyalty.
From an article in the same issue called 'Eton —Enemy of Promise?' by Mr. Edward Mortimer, an Old Etonian:
If this country is to be a real democracy, either Etonians must be disqualified from all positions of authority, or, more simply. Eton must be abolished..
From a Spanish proverb:
'Courage, fleas! The night is long.'
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