There was nothing quite like the condescension of the public schoolboy for his grammar school equivalent.

Wilson himself had sent his children to private schools, as did most of his ministers. C.P. Snow explained that 'if you are living in a prosperous home it is a mistake to educate your child differently from most of the people he knows socially'.

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The destruction of the grammar schools was a project close to Crosland's heart. He had been educated at Highgate, a minor public school. If he had attended a grammar school, like Wilson or Heath, or his friends and rivals Jenkins or Healey, then he might have been less keen to abolish an institution that had manifestly succeeded in propelling bright pupils from modest backgrounds to the highest places in the land. Unfortunately, as Wilson and Health were well aware, there was nothing quite like the condescension of the public schoolboy for his grammar school equivalent.

D. Sandbrook, White Heat (2006), 334