English schools

'What's wrong with the world' has an extensive section about education; Chesterton discusses both public and special schools. Apparently, the public schools of his day were often criticized. Chesterton explains the main problem:

Surely, when all is said, the ultimate objection to the English public school is its utterly blatant and indecent disregard of the duty of telling the truth. [-] No English schoolboy is ever taught to tell the truth, for the very simple reason that he is never taught to desire the truth. From the very first he is taught to be totally careless about whether a fact is a fact; he is taught to care only whether the fact can be used on his "side"

The argument continues to explain how this attitude is omnipresent in the political party system. One has to wonder if things significantly improved since then.
The 'new schools', unfortunately, are no better: according to Chesterton they are not really 'new', but merely copies of the older aristocratic educational institutions. They are not adapted to the working class that they should be serving.