[HPforGrownups] Re: OT: Public Schools

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 187800



geoff_bannister wrote:
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> The terminology, which is probably confusing to folk outside the UK, 
> arises
> from the fact that these schools were open to the fee-paying public -
> obviously the well-off - as opposed to schools run by the Churc
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John Granger in /Harry Potter's Bookshelf, the Great Books Behind the 
Hogwart's Adventure /

explains that what Americans think of Public School would be called a 
Comprehensive School in the UK. 
US Private Schools (including church schools) would more or less equal 
Public Schools in the UK.
and Private Tutoring or Home Schooling in the US would be considered a 
Private education in the UK. 

As Geoff makes the point, there are points of departure and as I read it 
Granger was looking more backward (the Tom Brown series, Bronte & 
Austen) than describing the current UK educational system, which is an 
appropriate vantage point.  After all, HWs was much closer to a Medieval 
environment as far as architecture, quills, scrolls, and smoky sconces. 


Rick Kennerly
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