“A question on a paper sat by 12-year-old pupils in 2011 gives a telling glimpse into how Eton fosters ambition in its students from an early age, by asking them to imagine they are running the country. It appeared on the 2011 King’s Scholarship Examination paper, which can be viewed on the school’s website, and asked students to consider whether ‘it is better to be loved than feared’. ‘You are the Prime Minister,’ the paper says, before instructing the young Etonians to draft the script for a speech to be broadcast to the nation explaining why deploying the Army was ‘both necessary and moral’.”
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