“Apart from the children of the well-to-do”

—  R. H. Tawney

Secondary Education For All (1922)
Context: Apart from the children of the well-to-do, who receive secondary education almost as a matter of course, and whose parents appear usually, though quite mistakenly, to believe that they pay the whole cost of it, secondary education is still commonly regarded as a "privilege" to be conceded only to the exceptionally brilliant or fortunate.

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English philosopher 1880–1962

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