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Yes, I suppose I'm curious about how comfortable they feel about their association with this particular generation of students.
The Head's a good example - the 2010-20's are an era of Etonian prime ministers, does he feel Johnson is a reflection on his leadership at all? Do the PPE-type subject teachers recognise the influence they've had on current events? Is the economics teacher happy about having taught those responsible for such economicaly illiterate policies?
There's presumably some professional pride for teachers at having a past student achieve any degree of greatness (right word?). I wonder how they celebrate this cohort.
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I'd wondered the same about Oxford - whether the PPE tutors feel a sense of shame at how their alumni are showing their ignorance, making highly public unforced errors and exercising amazingly poor judgement at nearly every turn....
It seems from the outside, that all the learning and listening stops on graduation day...
Either that or the intake are just a bunch of fuckwits and there's nothing any tutors/lecturers can do about it -
I wonder how they celebrate this cohort.
Given the age and likely social class of anyone that taught at Eton in the 1970s I suspect a lot of them were in the c.30% of the electorate that voted for Johnson in 2019. Who knows how many have changed their mind since.
Rik_Van_Looy
NickCJ
I think @christianSpaceman has in mind the culture of privilege and entitlement that the school fosters generally. That headmaster may have seen Johnson for the shit he is, but he probably didn't see how the school's culture made him (and Cameron and the rest) even worse.