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...school in this case happened to be a local prep academy that tries hard to make its students eligible for scholarships to Britain's more prestigious private schools. But Dann says that the problem of overworking youngsters is almost as bad in Britain's state-run public schools. The trouble is, he notes, "parents feel they must get the most out of their children, and they never stop to count the cost. How can anyone ever justify inducing insomnia in a ten-year...
...criticizes doctors who prescribe tranquilizers and sedatives for children, and urges them to speak out against the cruelty of overcompetitiveness. "We know you can teach a baby to swim before it can walk," he adds, "but what on earth for?" One Oxford don adjudged the current crop from English prep schools to be "all burnt out" by the time they get to the university. Laments Dann: "How bitter it must be to have shot one's bolt...
...year-old prig in the middle fifties passes my comprehension. Prescott claims that his journal is a documentary of a life style of his time, and thereby assumes a social importance beyond that which it possessed intrinsically, but it isn't and it doesn't. Prescott's alcoholic prep-school degeneracy did not, as he himself admits, characterize all Harvard any more then than it does now. His freshman year was a private thing that he went through--and it is a private thing that, in different forms, many people go through. Merely detailing the particular form in which Prescott...
...differences among the Corporation members are less pronounced than the similarities, which is not too surprising considering that the members choose each other. All of the members attended prep school. All of them have the kinds of flexible and well-paying jobs which allow them to schedule the lengthy meetings for which they receive no payment, other than expenses. And all of them are leaders, active in business, community and educational affairs...
...after a steady financial downslide, the family was forced to sell the castle. It became the Noble and Greenough School, the middle-level prep school where Nickerson finished off his high school education...