Critics assume that private parents are rich snobs trying to avoid the lower orders, says Anthony Seldon, headmaster of Wellington College, a boarding school.

评论者认为私立学校孩子的父母是设法避免下层社会的富裕的势利之人，一所寄宿学校- - -惠灵顿学院的校长安东尼·塞尔登(Anthony Seldon)如是说。

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Master of Wellington College, Dr Anthony Seldon, said the new academy would draw on the school's military tradition.

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