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With its 566-year heritage and its renowned commitment to excellence and breeding, Eton College is changing its ways to prepare boys for success in a more democratic and globalized world. Despite the revisions the venerable academy is making to its lesson plans, readers complained that the school is still too exclusionary...
...disappointed by your article on Eton [June 26]. You stated that "the role of women is still peculiar" in the college. I call it outrageous! As you noted, Eton may be hiring more women teachers and naming its first female housemaster, but why doesn't the school accept female students? You reported on the financial-aid campaign that is supposed to integrate less privileged groups into the élite. But what about the biggest group of underprivileged people in Europe: women? I'm appalled by such gender discrimination in our supposedly progressive Europe of the 21st century! Maxi Schmeisser Bamberg...
...That was in the 1960s. Modern Eton is less of a hothouse, less self-involved and all-consuming. "You hear about weird stuff like [what happened to Fraser] from a long time ago, but I never heard anything like that happening when I was there," says a student who finished in 2004. The practice of "fagging," where younger boys acted as servants to older ones, ended in 1980; now two incidents of bullying a younger boy can result in expulsion. Corporal punishment is banned. The boys are allowed out more on weekends. A Muslim tutor was recently appointed. The role...
...Outside the school, the best test of its success comes from fair-minded observers. "If Eton were a business, it would have opened 20 more and be expanding the brand everywhere," says Mulgan. Other schools are doing just that (see box). Now 5-7% of Eton students are foreign, and the boys' range of nationalities and ethnicities is increasing. But Eton's leaders do not aspire to build an empire. On their own turf, their goal is to preserve quality, reform slowly, and set an example others will want to follow. That 1,300 boys can swim in Eton...
What's in a name? This time around, it's the educators and not the students who are grappling with Shakespeare's enduring query. Eton College in Vancouver, Canada, bears the British school's name but there is little resemblance: it's a coeducational, post-secondary institution that doesn't take boarders. Eton, England, doesn't pay any mind. But when would-be Eton knock-off schools in China tried to pass themselves[an error occurred while processing this directive] off as affiliates, the original summoned its lawyers to send threatening letters to protect its name. That's not because...