Eton College in England

is famous in England

Eton College, a famous English school, was founded by Emperor Henry VI in. It is known as the cradle of gentlemen. This school, called "public school", is actually a private secondary school. At the beginning of the school, Henry VI named it "Public School", the original intention was to let poor children enter the school. Unexpectedly, the children of the royal family and nobles entered the school one after another, forming a noble atmosphere, which discouraged the children of the common people, so it became a school with strict family background and only open to the children of the nobles.

The students it enrolls are all boys between the ages of 12 and 18, and they go from middle school to college preparation. Tuition is surprisingly expensive, nearly 1, pounds a year (excluding room and board). It is said that one out of every boy in Britain can go to an ordinary public school, while only one out of every boy will go to Eton.

Many children of the British royal family studied at Eton College. Prince Charles is a graduate of this school. The Duke of Wellington, a British navy star, is also from Eton. There are 17 prime ministers and 36 dignitaries who have won the Victoria Cross (the highest honor in Britain), all of whom are graduates of this school.

In order to enable their children to study in Eton, some famous families in Britain signed up for the school when a boy was born and got a "birth certificate". After he was 12 years old, he entered the school on this basis.

An ancient institution, and gradually reformed

Eton College is an ancient institution. The school is located in Buckinghamshire, and the school building has been expanded repeatedly, with more than 1, student accommodation places. School discipline is known for its strictness. The subject is deeper than ordinary middle schools, and students must read classical literature. In recent years, Eaton has caught up with the world trend and attached great importance to mathematics, physics and language. It has the right to have a large-scale physics and chemistry laboratory and a modern language room, and students must study a foreign language at the same time.

In the past, some schools in Britain were single-sex schools, but in the early years, they were all co-educational. Only Eaton kept the boys' school system unchanged.

In recent 2 years, Eric Anderson, a Scottish, has been in charge of the school. He is full of reform spirit, which makes the ancient campus full of vitality.

The high tuition fees at Eton College make the children of poor families afraid. Eric pays attention to the education of talents. His first reform is to set up special grants to reward outstanding students who are diligent and eager to learn and can't afford tuition fees to enter the school. The second reform is to open to foreign students in order to improve Eaton's international image. At present, 5 students in the school are foreigners. The third reform is that senior students can choose Russian. Recently, Sumitomo Bank of Japan donated a fund of ￡ 1, to the school, and it is believed that the school will soon add Japanese subjects.

Although Eton College has been weathered for many years, the campus is still beautiful, and the old school buildings and teaching still stand tall. Students are still playing wooden balls on the grassy lawn, or wearing a 19th century gentry costume-black tuxedo with a white turtleneck shirt. It is said that this is a mourning dress for King George III. However, students' lives are gradually changing. In this century, the traditional black top hat on students' heads has been removed. Since last year, students can wear jeans to wander around the town in their spare time.

student temperament: conceit or confidence?

Eton College has always advertised that cultivating students' self-confidence is one of its goals. If you talk to some prominent people in the British upper class, you will find that they all owe the foundation of their personality formation to Eton College. For example, Daley, a member of the British Labour Party who was a student of Eton, recalled his study at Eton College and said that he had learned from the first day of school that everything should be valued for his own philosophy. Although they were all teenagers at the age of thirteen or fourteen, they were all edified to dare to compete with authority.

Dai Liye said, "Once I was beaten by a boy named Rafe and went to complain to my tutor, who asked me to question Rafe stack immediately. But when I went upstairs and shouted at him, Rafe replied slowly:' OK-but it doesn't hurt to let that guy wait!

In the eyes of ordinary people in Britain, this "self-confidence model of contempt for authority" cited by Daley is regarded as a manifestation of Eton students' conceit. Some people say that Eaton is a famous school, and its students have their own distinctive temperament. These students, at a young age, are superior to others, even if they are in school uniforms, they are easy to identify. In this regard, Eton students don't agree. They think that after Eton's education and training, they have real talent and practical learning, and they stand up with special air. Therefore, this is a sign of full confidence.

Grand Celebration

Eton College also has a celebration activity that can be almost compared with major festivals in Britain, that is, on the opening ceremony of Eton College on June 4th every year, elegant and chic teenagers all wear black tuxedos and blue carnations or peonies adorned on the collar holes on their chests, gracefully leading their parents to review the exhibition of students' academic achievements, going in and out of teaching to watch a Thanksgiving Mass, and then watching the Eton fleet in The Times. Attending the school's celebration, there are often many MPs, dukes and famous graduates, and sometimes the queen, prince and queen mother also attend the ceremony.

This fleet, which was recorded as early as in, always started at sunrise in the morning. On each boat, there were eight young dancers in white trousers, striped shirts and blue garck hats decorated with roses and lilacs, and they rowed slowly along the coast, accompanied by the "Eton Boat". From time to time, they will look at the stability of the water flow, stand up one by one, erect the wooden paddles, and occasionally wave the flower caps to signal to the audience by the river. This scene is really romantic, but the only fly in the ointment is that the Thames is so fierce and unpredictable that I don't know how many boys have been drowned by capsizing for nearly 2 years. In order to make up for this regret, the headmaster stipulated that those who want to join the fleet must learn to swim first. Every year, it seems that only this time can parents get a glimpse of their beloved son who lives on campus all the year round. Parents look at their children's elegant and romantic temperament, and seem to be satisfied with the high tuition fees paid every year.