What the Elite Look for in Tomorrow’s “Leaders”

At what perhaps is the world’s most elite boarding school, having spawned 19 British Prime Minsters and given tutelage to countless aristocrats, 12-year-olds at Eton College wanting to earn a scholarship (perhaps because they are relatively poor but ambitious, scrapper types likely to do well in politics) were asked to imagine themselves as the Prime Minister and justify in a speech to the nation why using the military and killing dozens to put down a series of protests was “necessary and moral.”

(Thanks to Tom Larson).

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11:47 am on May 27, 2013