Although I had not the unique experience of the English minor public school, I got some insight into its 'benefits' from the books of Nigel Molesworth, who chronicled his times at St Custard's with a mixture of low cunning and ineffably bad spelling.
Has anyone else read Molesworth? It was a bit before my time but my Dad put me on to him.
If you want to know more you'll have to buy a copy, but there's a brilliant pastiche which has Molesworth attending "hoggwarts skool for WITCHCRAFT and wizzardry ".
http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htm
Warning: reading Molesworth can seriously impair your ability to spell.
