Author : Nick Fraser
Publisher : Short Books
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1780721595
Whatever your thoughts about Eton, they are likely to be strong: a symbol of class and privilege or a bastion of outdated ideas. Old alumnus Nick Fraser draws on his own experiences, the anecdotes of pupils and teachers past and present, and the recollections of the famous and infamous to evaluate the school.
Author : Musa Okwonga
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1783529687
Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your typical Eton College student. The experience moulded him, challenged him... but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seems to contribute to the harm being done to the UK. The more he searched, the more evident the connection became between one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions and the genesis of Brexit, and between his home town in the suburbs of Greater London and the rise of the far right. Woven throughout this deeply personal and unflinching memoir of Musa’s five years at Eton in the 1990s is a present-day narrative which engages with much wider questions about pressing social and political issues: privilege, the distribution of wealth, the rise of the far right in the UK, systemic racism, the ‘boys’ club’ of government and the power of the few to control the fate of the many. One of Them is both an intimate account and a timely exploration of race and class in modern Britain.
Author : Tony Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1472913124
'A hugely reassuring, common-sense guide no parent of teenage boys should be without.' - Sunday Times In his bestselling An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education, Tony Little, former Head Master of Eton College, asks the fundamental questions about how we should make our schools and schoolchildren fit for the modern world. This book will enlighten teachers, students and anxious parents alike, providing advice from the author's many years as a teacher, headmaster and governor in both independent schools and academies, in answer to the key issues concerning education. Tony Little explains the research behind how teenagers' brains function and how they act accordingly, discusses how to deal with sex, drugs and poor discipline, reassesses the meaning of 'character' in a child's education, and provides his own list of books every bright 16-year-old should read. In addition, he offers tips for parents on dealing with adolescents and communicating with their child's school. Drawing on a lifetime's work in schools, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education is a refreshing, rational and original take on the most important stage in a child's development. An entertaining and essential book for teachers, parents and students interested in how education should serve our young people, now and in future.
Author : Mika LaVaque-Manty
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0472116851
Can equality and excellence coexist in a democratic society?
Author : Ralph Nevill
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Private schools
ISBN :
Author : Dillibe Onyeama
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0241993830
'The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . A remarkably well-written memoir' Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction Dillibe was the second black boy to study at Eton - joining in 1965 - and the first to complete his education there. Written at just 21, this is a deeply personal, revelatory account of the racism he endured during his time as a student at the prestigious institution. He tells in vivid detail of his own background as the son of a Nigerian judge at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, of his arrival at the school, of the curriculum, of his reception by other boys (and masters), and of his punishments. He tells, too, of the cruel racial prejudice and his reactions to it, and of the alienation and stereotyping he faced at such a young age. A Black Boy at Eton is a searing, ground-breaking book displaying the deep psychological effects of colonialism and racism. A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
Author : Jamie Blackett
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2017
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781846892516
Author : Robert Verkaik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786073846
‘The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones’s Chavs.’ –Andrew Marr, Sunday Times ‘In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects of the elite schools and their product’s domination of public life for two and a half centuries: the acquiescence of everyone else.’ –Observer In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich and poor is now greater than ever before. Is this the country we want to live in? If we care about inequality, we have to talk about public schools. Robert Verkaik issues a searing indictment of the system originally intended to educate the most underprivileged Britons, and outlines how, through meaningful reform, we can finally make society fairer for all.
Author : Andrew Adonis
Publisher :
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category :
ISBN :
"Leadership is what matters above all in politics: everything else is secondary." Leaders dominate coverage of political history and election campaigns and there is hardly a historian or election analyst who doesn't attribute importance to leadership. But the argument of this book is different. It is that leaders are basically all that matter to the course of politics. In this incisive group portrait of many of the foremost leaders of modern states which are now democracies, from Churchill and Lincoln to Biden and Modi, Andrew Adonis analyses the fundamentals of political leadership in western politics. All the leaders in this book shaped their nations and eras in significant ways, often in their own image and through sharp conflict with rival leaders with radically different agendas. Dramatic and novel accounts of the battles between Gladstone and Marx, and Stalin and Bevin, illuminate the impact of the political struggle between rival leaders on the fate of liberty, constitutions and social and economic structures within as much as between different nations in each generation. Drawing on three decades of experience of politics and government, as historian and journalist and as a politician himself, Adonis offers a stimulating account of modern politics and many of the leaders who shaped it, for good or ill. Each essay is a nugget of insight about the extraordinary human beings engaged in one of the most central activities of modern societies : the leadership of nations.
Author : William Coles
Publisher : Legends Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2019-05-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781789550429
'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?' Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. A bittersweet story of a life-changing love. What Reviewers and Readers Say: 'This is a charming and uplifting book' Piers Morgan What a read! Every schoolboy's dream comes true in this deftly-written treatment of illicit romance. A triumph' Alexander McCall Smith 'The Eton Affairis a beautiful book, managing to use a simple narrative voice without consequently bland style - honesty, beauty, and passionpervade the novel but so do humour, youthfulness and energy' Stuck in a Book 'The Eton Affairis an outstanding debut novel. A wonderful story of first love. Few male authors can write about romance in a way which appeals to women - but Coles has managed it quite brilliantly' Sunday Express 'My own piano teacher was called Mr Bagston and frankly I don't think any power on earth could have persuaded us to create a scene of the kind Coles so movingly describes!' Boris Johnson 'Passionate and excruciatingly compelling' www.curledup.com, USA popular literary blog 'The writing is such that regardless of how much appeal the setting of Eton should have for all the Anglophiles out there, the delicate and deliberate prose will be what ensures the devotion of the readeruntil the very last page' Alcott and Earhart literary blog 'A brilliantly plottedand paced evocation of an affair between a 17-year-old schoolboy and his 23-year-old piano teacher in Eton in the spring of 1982, the Falklands war rumbling in the background' The Oldie 'This is a delightful storythat tumbles along, building tension again and again as both Kim and India throw caution to the wind putting their illicit love affair in constant danger of exposure' The Small Press Review 'It encompasses all the emotions of being in love, but also of lust, envy, and worries for the future; this is certainly one to read again' Student Direct, the UK's leading student newspaper 'One of the most romantic books I have ever read, beautifully written and characterised' Amazon 'the book is a thorough-going dissection of first love and, more specifically, first jealousy' Readme.cc 'Reading Coles' book has inspired me not only to listen more carefully and frequently to the Bach piano music which sits, ever ready, in my PC's iTunes Library...[but to play it]' Musings from a Muddy Island
