The Poor Boys' Eton
“ An experiment well worth the trying,” was how Dr Cyril Alington, Head Master of Eton, described Caldecott House, a boarding school for the children of working-class parents, at the opening ceremony on Saturday.
Discussing the advisability of sending a boy to a public school, Dr Alington said it would probably be a disadvantage to send a boy from a home where his spiritual and intellectual development was his parents’ first care. It would be preposterous to suppose, however, that the working classes had the power to make their home ideal.
Public Schools, he concluded, were often blamed for being conservative, but he thought they were very often blamed by those who knew very little about them.
Western Daily Press, 24.11.1924, p. 7