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Vir Campestris wrote:
On 08/09/2019 20:53, NY wrote:
My headmaster spoke in a bored-with-life upper-class drawl. He was
obsessed with pushing as many boys to go to Oxbridge, and spoke
disdainfully of "other universities". I remember he called the whole of
the Lower Sixth to a meeting and said "I am now going to read out a list
of names" - which he did - and then continued "Those of you whose names
I have not read out are not considered Oxbridge Material and should
leave this meeting now" which was a very tactless way of putting it and
must have been offensive to those who were "only" considered suitable
for red-brick universities.

That's almost familiar.

My school measured itself by how many boys got to Oxbridge, and how many
to other universities.

They'd rather you did Ancient Greek at Oxford than Engineering at UMIST.

What do you mean, career?

I have a friend with a Classics degree - she went into computer programming
- a very good career.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle