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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Maybe some of the Brits here can explain these terms regarding education?
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Or what about the different types of schools? In British books it sounds to me like what they call a public school (e.g. Eaton and Harrow; very upper crust) is what here in the US we'd call a private school.
What do they call what we call a public school; one that's free and paid for with taxes?
And then after finishing their public school and they go to Oxford or wherever, they don't study Cicero, they read Cicero. And studying the classics is a very worthy endeavor while here in the US we're busy getting ready for grubbing for money by studying engineering, agriculture, etc.