#Eton under pressure after #RickyGervais rant about the politicians it produces

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Eton: has this school done more to ruin the UK than any other organisation.

When are we going to stop taking ‘went to Eton’ as a qualification for running the country?”

With those words, embedded in a sweary rant, Ricky Gervais once again struck a chord with the people of the UK:

He was attacking Boris Johnson, of course – and rightly so.

But the criticism rings true of so many more politicians, especially in recent years.

So the social media erupted:

https://twitter.com/David__Osland/status/1473953753124548610

https://twitter.com/CrowSaorAlba1/status/1473676126333681669

It would be fair to say that Eton produces high-flyers who are both arrogant and ignorant, and only ever gain positions of power because of the Old Boy Network.

Maybe once it educated genuinely great and good people. But even that is debatable. And those days – if they ever existed – are long gone.

As a private school, providing education to those who can pay its exorbitant fees, Eton does not take the most intelligent people; it takes those whose parents have the most money.

Teachers there may do their best to implant an education into this stony ground but the evidence suggests that the best way Eton equips its alumni for success is by allowing them to say they were “Eton-educated”, even though (in some cases), it would have been more rewarding to educate a brick. It would do less damage, even if it were used only to break windows.

Former Eton pupils help each other into the plum jobs and deny those jobs to more deserving people who went to other schools.

And that’s why the United Kingdom has flushed itself down the toilet.

The quality of the education provided may be excellent. I don’t think anybody is denying it.

But if Eton’s current owners and staff really want to maintain their school’s reputation, that is being trashed by former pupils including Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Jacob Rees-Mogg and, yes, Justin Welby, there’s something they need potential pupils to do before they take any money:

An intelligence test.

Of course, it’s possible that Eton does actually get potential pupils to take such a test.

If so, then it needs to be changed.

To one that works.

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3 Comments

  1. Wobbly December 24, 2021 at 2:07 am - Reply

    Is there a site where I can read other opinions by millionaires( fake anti establishment ones ) on elitism. Perhaps funny people who ‘ Roast’ rich winners of meaningless baubles. I need to know what they say is right and proper before I take my Sanatogen and rusks.

    • Mike Sivier January 2, 2022 at 1:10 pm - Reply

      I’m not sure that such a site has ever existed for the ‘Sanatogen and rusks’ set.

  2. The Toffee (597) December 24, 2021 at 2:44 am - Reply

    It’s all in the (in)breeding, Mike.

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