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A comment on Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education.

Re:Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education by kazinator on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:56PM (#28332880)
> This argument is far from original; lambasting public schools for tormenting their inmates and ruining the country is one of Britain’s oldest traditions.

Pink Floyd's The Wall, anyone?

> The author also makes good use of his own [1970's] memories at Radley College. The school was trapped in the past, both the 1940s and 1950s—playground games were an endless fight against the Germans

No different from 1970's Czechoslovakia playgrounds.

We're talking only 30 years after a big, devastating war; it held a lot of cultural influence.

If we look at television and film related to WWII:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_films_and_TV_speci...

still plenty of action into the 2000's.

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Re:Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education by AtlasBarfed on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:11PM (#28334994)
Cowboys and Indians playground play persisted well into what, the sixties and seventies? That wasn't nearly as traumatic (for the victors, my apologies to Native Americans) and the most public conflicts back in the late 1800s. Although probably the popularity of westerns and introduction of TV helped persist it.
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Re:Sad Little Men: Assessing the impact of an elite education by tonyedgecombe on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:16PM (#28334041)
Yes, it was exactly the same in my state school a few miles down the road from Radley.
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