From Newsgroup: aus.legal
Nomen Nescio <
nobody@dizum.com> wrote
Private schools in Australia descend from the British public schools designed to turn children into sociopaths who in turn would administer
the colonies.
They were in fact designed to produce those who administer everything.
The vast bulk of non Labour PMs were products of those and still are
And few of ours were
The idea was to embed ideas of British and Western superiority
They were in fact the kids of the superior, they didn't
need to do that, the parent's themselves did that
(see: classical education),
Few of ours did that shit
teach children how to order others about (fagging),
Few of ours did that shit
to remove empathy (by separating themfrom their parents via boarding),
More mindless bullshit
and to build a sort of esprit de corps through the old school tie.
That was much more about who you know after leaving school
We've preserved parts of this system due to classism,
Ours don't do that
religiosity,
Corse the tikes never did anything like that and Britain never
had those and in fact banned that religion for centurys
and an unhealthy dollop of white supremacy.
More mindless bullshit. Both countrys encouraged the
kids of most important wogs to be educated there, those
from the colonys for the poms and in our case kids of
foreigh diplomats and military exchange people etc
and kids of our diplomats serving overseas so their
kids weren't stuck with the dregs of wog kids outside
the country where the diplomats and administrators
were posted
That it produces some number of entitled, poorly adjusted, and frankly, damaged people who go on to commit crimes despite not being materially deprived is not an entirely unexpected consequence.
Even more mindless shit than you usually manage and that's saying something
And the kids charged with the crime weren't boarders
--- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2