CONTENTS

Prologue

Part One: Selling Education by the Pound

  1    Poor Schools

  2    Nurseries of Aristocracy

  3    Empire of the Sons

  4    A Victorian Reckoning

  5    Eton Rifles

  6    Survival of the Fittest

  7    Churchill, the Public School Reformer

  8    Post-War Privilege

  9    Education Education Education

Part Two: Bad Education

10    Did You Go to School?

11    Boys’ Own Brexit

12    For the Few, Not the Many

13    The Class Ladder

14    Dormitories of Abuse

15    Bad Charity

16    All That Glitters

17    The Entitlement Complex

18    A Class Apart

Conclusion: The Dissolution of the Public Schools

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index