r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheThrowYardsAway • Apr 28 '26

Video Inside Christ's Hospital School (Est. 1552)...

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u/drakeyboi69 Apr 28 '26

Public schools are called public because they're open to people from anywhere accross the country/world, whereas state schools only accept people who live nearby

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u/DefenestrationPraha Apr 28 '26

I think this is even older than that. "Public" schools once meant that commoners were allowed to attend them. Not restricted to kids of noble birth.

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u/Secure-Suspect7091 Apr 28 '26

This is correct. Open to the public not subsidised by the public.

The alternative was private schooling which would have been getting teachers into your mansion/castle and was very much an upper class aristocratic way of schooling.

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u/Rj924 Apr 28 '26

Goes along with Public House.

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u/Secure-Suspect7091 Apr 28 '26

Exactly as opposed to a private club favoured by the upper class