The worst of a public school is that a sort of common character is substituted for individual character.
The master, of course, can't attend to the separate development of each boy's idiosyncrasy.

All minds are thrown into one great mould, and come out of it more or less in the same form.

An Etonian may be clever or stupid, but, as either, he remains emphatically Etonian.

A public school ripens talent, but its tendency is to stifle genius.

Then, too, a public school for an only son, heir to a good estate, which will be entirely at his own disposal, is apt to encourage reckless and extravagant habits; and your estate requires careful management, and leaves no margin for an heir's notes-of-hand and post-obits.