ABSTRACT
Public Schools such as Eton, Winchester and Rugby which typify English education to foreigners. They are actually fewer in numbers than their influence suggests; some two hundred are represented in the Headmasters’ Conference which most strictly defines a ‘Public School’, whereas there are altogether about 1,500 Independent schools in England and Wales teaching boys and girls of the eleven to fifteen age-range. Normally admission to a Public School follows intensive training at a preparatory boarding school, and is at the age of thirteen or more, rather than at eleven as in the state secondary schools. The educational program is basically designed to train for entrance to Oxford or Cambridge universities, although only a minority of their pupils proceed thither.
