In this bitingly honest autobiographical essay, Orwell recounts his days as a pupil at St Cyprian’s preparatory school in Eastbourne, Sussex. He reflects on a ‘world of force and fraud and secrecy,’ where the actual ‘pattern of school life’ was played out as a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Reflecting on the hypocrisy of Edwardian society, Orwell condemns the education he received as ‘a preparation for a sort of confidence trick,’ designed mercilessly to prepare pupils for exams without concern for real knowledge or understanding. This is Orwell as political dissident and supreme chronicler of class conflict.

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