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why do the british
call public schools "private schools"?
We don't
wait what?
A public school is a school operated/funded by the state. We don't call those schools private, because they're not. We call private schools, private schools.
The English do call 'private' schools 'public' schools. It is connected to England having a little longer history that the states. The first schools were, of course, run by the church. Public schools were those open to the public and not just trainee clergy. The fact that they were fee paying wasn't the point.
The terms state school and private school, which are also used in England, are more modern.
Devrim
No one calls private schools, public schools.
Gove is thinking of rebranding state-funded schools as "council" schools, depending on how many schools he can convert into academies; Schools for common folk.And people do called privately-funded schools public schools. It would generally be public school = privately-funded and state school = government-funded I think.
Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is, necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew
Yes they do.
No they don't.
People tend to only use public school nowadays to refer to the old private schools like Eton.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
They are the majority of 'public schools' anyway, the whole system has changed with ex-grammar schools switching into being academies, church comprehensives becoming academies.
Some schools are becoming colleges by virtue of having a sixth-form too, so the whole school naming system is pretty confusing.
I don't know about today, but they certainly used to, thirty years ago when I lived in London, remember I am a few decades older than you.
I can recall somebody referring to somebody in Class War as a 'public school twat'. I don't think they meant state school. It used to be pretty common, and if you search Wiki for 'public schools', one of the results you get is 'independent schools', which I believe is the new official name.
Devrim
Here's an article from just a few days ago
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...n-2045899.html
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Man, British people are so weird. Just another example of their many eccentricities...
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
That's racist, where's scarletgoul to complain about 'foreign chavanism against the welsh'.
Grab the step-ladders, boys...it's time to mount our high horses!
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
High horse mounted!
RACISTS!
