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After lunch hour, at my mother’s office. Just done with our lunch, and we had such a stupid convos…
Me : i think im gonna have my sons schooled at Eton
Mum: yeah, sure. think to get a boyfriend first before you’re moving that far.
Me : (speechless… mummy hits me on the right place)
Mum : Eton is a bit… well… pricey, isn’t it?
Me : sorta
Mum : i won’t pay for my grandsons’ school. i’ve spent more than enough money for my children’s school.
Me : don’t worry. i won’t ask you to pay for my sons’ school fee. it’s gonna be me and my hubby’s responsible later.
Mum : good. make sure you tell your father the same thing! anyway, Tony Blair went to Eton?
Me : nope. he went to Fettes. Prince Wiliam and Prince Harry were at Eton.
Mum : aaah… yes. Ask my assistant to get me my cellfone, please. ill make some calls. my grandsons go to the same school as the crowned prince, that’s a news.
Me : it’s just a plan, mum. i don’t even have a boyfriend, remember??
Mum : well, why don’t you start to get a boyfriend now? and you better stick to the plan, honey! i can’t wait for that day to come… when exactly you’re planning to give birth to my grandsons by the way? i can tell some people to get prepared
Me : ???
it was such a ‘mistake’ to tell my mother about this plan. now she forgot that she told me to get a boyfriend first before planning my sons-to-be’s future lives!
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A friend wrote on my FB wall after I came up with an idea to send my (future) boys to Eton College. He wrote:
Yeah, sending your boys to Eton. Once they’re done there, send them to my uni. I’ll be more than pleased to be their professor at my uni! Can’t hardly imagine it, hun. Me teaching your future sons. Could that be happening?
*As a hint: This friend isn’t a professor yet, he’s currently a postgraduate student at English Literature Department of Uni of Edinburgh who is wishing to be a professor in his present uni. Got it?? hehe
and my reply to him was:
with all my respect, my dearest friend, sure it might have happened later in the future. ill be more than grateful knowing you possibly will be taking a tremendous part in my future sons’ education process. nevertheless, what if those sons (will be) of mine are not having any interests in literature? im not gonna send my boys to Eton coz i want them to study literature, law, or med. it’s gonna be major if they can go to oxbridge or your respectable uni of edinburgh after Eton. but at the end, it’ll be up to them. don’t mind at all if they turn up to be a figure skater, actor, or even a race driver after their 5 years at Eton
received a phone call sum hours after i sent the text on m friend’s FB wall. He said, “you’re going to send your boys to Eton to see them have a career as a racer?”. i said, why not? Damien Lewis and Hugh Laurie went to Eton College. And voila… they’re hollywood actors now 
It’s not because of Eton has educated 18 PMs of UK, then im expecting the boys im gonna give birth to will be also the PM of UK after their years at Eton.
Yep, it’s true that most of the Eton graduates continue to oxbridge and many other great unis within UK (and even USA now). And honestly, I was thinking about that too. Geez, how cool is it gonna be when your baby boys are going to Cambridge or Yale? It must be real diva! We’re gonna be so damn proud of them. But I won’t force my sons-to-be to continue their study at one of those top unis (though im really praying now one of my kid will go to Oxford!!!)
Maybe, some of the people send their boys to Eton for a reason to secure their boys’ seats at some great unis. Not because Eton has got a big influence in each of top uni’s committee, but because registering your boys to Eton probably is the first step to make sure that your boys will be more than qualified for all greatest universities!
Not moi, dear. Yes, im expecting one of my kid later to be a student of Oxford University. But that won’t be the reason im sending my boys to Eton College.
Eton College’s Head Master’s foreword on the prospectus:
… the essence of school life has remained as it was described in the mid-nineteenth century by an Eton Master, William Cory-Johnson.
He wrote that at Eton you may acquire a certain amount of knowledge, much of which may be forgotten, although the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions. More important than knowledge, however, is learning the arts and habits which will last for a lifetime. Above all, he concluded, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.
Our primary aim is to encourage each Etonian to be a self-confident, enquiring, tolerant, positive young man, a well-rounded character with an independent mind, an individual who respects the differentness of others. By the time he leaves the school, we want each boy to have that true sense of self-worth which will enable him to stand up for himself and for a purpose greater than himself, and, in doing so, to be of value to society.
The Eton prospectus page 14:
Self-confidence without arrogance, enthusiasm unfettered by cynicism, perseverance to withstand setbacks and active tolerance of others are qualities we admire and wish to see in our boys. Above all we wish them to develop their own sense of integrity so that they can identify right from wrong and have the courage to stand by what they believe is true.
Not yet a parent me is… but i can imagine how great it is for having children with those “Etonian Values”. Great personality, and not making parents really worry about their future lives, no matter what they’re gonna turn into!
And that’s why I’m kinda sure that I’ll be spending (maybe) £ 70.000/year for each my son-to-be to have them schooled at Eton 
not only for the prestige, or the chance of bragging to other people about my sons earn their degrees at oxbridge
By the way… got this kind of funny vision! Me, in my mid 40s, watching over a young man in his racing suit, getting ready for his MotoGP race. He is a graduate from Eton College and doing his double degree in Oxford. I call him my son. Maaaaaassssssiveeeee!!!!! hahaha
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** just for fun (??), if you wanna read through the whole Eton’s prospectus, you can download it at http://eton.blueish-level.com/UserFiles/File/Prospectus1.pdf
well, who knows you’ll get interested to send your boys to Eton too
Started with a friend who wrote on my FB wall, telling me that an old friend of ours went to Eton at Berkshire before he moved to Berlin some of years ago. It continued with a call which was not purposed to talk about that friend, but at the end it seems like the 40 mins convos was all about that friend Since then, I got attracted to Eton.
After the convos, I intentionally googled Eton and browsed on its website. First impression… the web wasn’t so bad. A bit plain, and somehow it looks cold. Dunno, it was just my feeling. The language is a bit refined too, as it’s expected to be read by some royal families, or at least the common citizen with a high level of education.
Read through some pages before I downloaded the prospectus and other information related to Eton. Truly amazed by it. Gotta read the prospectus over and over again before I finally catch what they’re trying to deliver in those prospectus pages (NOTE: it’s not happening to all human being, it’s only me and perhaps some other unlucky people who are a bit lame in language that will experience this kind of difficulty!).
More than 6 centuries Eton has been participating in making a better civilization in the United Kingdom. That’s cool enough for me. During that 6 centuries, Eton College has been giving its highest service to the country by educating 18 Prime Ministers of the UK. What an achievement.
At Eton College, there used to be an old system where registration at birth is allowed! That’s beyond!! I mean, you could register your son literally 2 seconds after he was born! Too bad the system has been abolished some years ago. If that system of registration is still being used today, you probably can register your son even before your son is born! You just have to bring the 3D sonogram pictures from your ob/gyn and tell the school committee that you carry a baby boy! That’d be major, really But after that, make sure you put a reminder on your iPhone that you need to bring your son to Eton right after his 10th bday for a tour, and after his 13th bday to begin his 5 years of studying at Eton.
The tuition fee is kinda high there. Nearly £30.000 for a year study (£ 9360 per half, and there are 3 halves per year). Not including some extracurricular and music classes that your son will take. And the uniforms. And other stuffs that might follow later. Approximately £40 -45.000 per year. Not bad for an old school, eh?
The curriculums are kinda old, but they’re good. Strict schedule and a lot of activities. For me, the coolest thing about this school is all the boys are required to meet their House Master or Dame at 7.30 am (sharp) every single day. What they do? Reading newspaper! Hah! I wish my school applied the same system!! 6.15 pm to 7.30 pm, the boys are obliged to run what they call as ‘quite hour’ where they must spend the hours working on things or studying (or prolly… sleeping) in their own room. Supper is served at 7.30 pm, a great punishment for those who are sleeping on their quite hour coz they’ll possibly overslept and miss the supper. Hehe.
Overall, I like what Eton offers in their prospectus. Even it makes me want to send my future sons to Eton. Conditional applied though. I will send my sons to Eton IF I only got no more than 2 sons! OR if I’ve got more than 2 sons BUT my husband later is kind of man who earns more than £ 2 mills a year. Fair enough, right? I’m assuming (and my “PR Plan & Campaign” lecturer will be mad at me coz according to him a PR person will NEVER assume. Just a note ^_^) that it will cost around £ 60.000 to £ 75.000 per year –or even much more- for the tuition fee at Eton by the time I’ll finally send my sons to Eton. Hah!
There’ll be the time when I finally feel my parents’ ‘misery’ working on pretty much everything so they can send their babies to the best school possible (and to get their daughters the best things that LV and Prada boutiques sell! * just kidding, mummy ^_^*)
My future sons will need to go to a prep school before they go to Eton. In the mean time, im doing my own ‘prep class’. Hehe. So… anyone… what you think it takes to get a great young man who will love you and your family with a guarantee that he’ll earn more than £ 2 mills a year in his future??
