'When I was fourteen of fifteen I was an odious little snob, but no worse than other boys of my own age and class. I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so over-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English "education" fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek, within a few months of leaving school - I studied Greek for eight or ten year, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet - but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bind wed it is, sticks by you until your grave.'
George Orwell in James KA Smith, Desiring the Kingdom, p.30.
