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Eton College - Windsor, England

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Eton College, known as Eton to many people, is a British school located in Eton, near Windsor in England. It is an independent school founded by HenryVI in the fifteen centuries for royal boys aged between 13 and 18. It was one of the best schools when first founded and up till now, it is still commonly known as one of the most distinguished schools among all the schools in the world. In fact, these comments on the school are not wrong as it has fostered numbers of outstanding people for the world. But in some sense, it is not as perfect as what most people say so as the heavy price of the school may root people who cannot afford to go the stereotype that they are poor and incompetent.

Positively, there were quite a number of people who were contributive to the world and became famous. To list the names, there are James Chichester-Clark, former prime minister of Northern Ireland, George Orwell, the famous author, Prince William and Harry, and David Cameron, the current prime minister of England, and also have fostered 18 prime minister during the 6centuries. After knowing this, I am sure that many people will be surprised and question, how is it possible? And the answer came from the Eton-Style of Education. To explain roughly about that, each subject is divided into a lot of levels so that students of approximately similar level can study what they require the most. In fact, according to a interview with Tony Little(Principal of Eton College), Eton College has 14maths classes and each classes have different difficulties and the highest class learns university math and the lowest class keep repeat until the students get the topic perfectly, and they divide the students into each level according to their academic achievements annually. For this reason, many people insist that Eton College is one of the top schools in the world.

Negatively, the stereotype that only royal and affluent people can go there may

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