based on p.17, ex.22 Though limited in number (about 500), the public schools are the and most important of the independent (private) schools. They pupils at about 12 or 13 years of age, usually on the basis of a strict selection. They are fee-paying and very expensive; their standards for entries are very high. Most of them are boarding schools, although some are day schools and some are for girls. A few have become coeducational. Most of them were in Victorian times, but many of them are several hundred years . The and aristocratic remain among the most important public schools. They are: Eton (1440), Harrow (1572), Winchester (1382), Westminster (1560), Rugby (1567), Charterhouse (1611). The public school system has often been criticized for its of democracy and for its tendency to intellect less important than good sportsmanship and the acceptance of the traditional code of behaviour. But many English people and a many people in the English-speaking world admire the type of citizen which these schools produce.

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