Howard Dean: The house prefect who would be President [View All]

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Bloody hell, I live reasonably near Felstead! I didn't know he was a public schoolboy.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-923446,00.html

HOWARD DEAN, the frontrunner among Democrats vying for the United States presidency, has described how he spent a teenage year under the rigorous regime of a “cruel” English public school.
The former Vermont Governor won an English Speaking Union scholarship to Felsted School, near Great Dunmow in Essex, in the Sixties and he writes of his days there in his book Winning Back America.

“It was a great experience, but I found the restrictive reputation of English public schools to be well-earned,” Mr Dean writes. “I enjoyed the English dry sense of humour, but a British public school is pretty cruel and the rules are strict.”

Dr Dean says that he played rugby, but does not dwell on that experience. For him the best part of the year was the chance that it afforded him to travel to Tunisia, Corsica and Sardinia.