But you referred to this effect your own lily-pink self, Shiv! Some 200 posts ago.
Sent from my iPad On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:00 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Jun 2012 12:58:41 pm [email protected] wrote: >> Standards have fallen, though. > > That actually depends on whose standards you consider as the "right > standards". Indian school children of the "shiv in Poona" class (and tens of > thousands of others) were taught that "Ye olde Britishe Public schoole" was > the standard to follow. Typically they liked Wodehouse. > > But the bunch I was thrown with after I joined Medical college, all of whom > scored marks near the top of a competitive entrance exam, mostly did not like > Wodehose or English classics. Decades on they are none the worse for their > ignorance of what was considered "essential" in my own schooling. > > But funnily enough, my own friends circle today seems to include those very > Wodehouse fans of that era, and fewer of those who did not like Wodehouse, > suggesting to me that this sort of education also imbued a kind of "Old > School > Network"/Public School Caste like personality on many of us. > > shiv >
