" Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority , yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation" -- John O'Farrell "Their tone is calm and evidence-based, not agitprop . They have made up my mind . I now feel clear not just that change is urgently needed, but that options for change are more varied, imaginative and realistic than I'd dared imagine " -- Maggie Fergusson, Tablet " Fascinating " -- Alex Renton, Spectator " '[A] powerful attack on private schools as engines of privilege . a forensic examination of what the authors call "Britain's private school problem" . They start strong . leaving you in no doubt about the path from private schooling to the elite . This book does a fine job of explaining and damning Britain's private school problem " -- Hugo Rifkind, The Times " A passionate attack on private schools . Kynaston's flair for anecdotes shines through .

Fascinating " -- Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times " Timely " -- Guardian "The historical background to our arguments over state and private education today is the most intriguing part of Engines of Privilege . imbued with Kynaston's fascination with the arguments and mores of post-war Britain " -- Anne McElvoy, Evening Standard "Francis Green and David Kynaston say loud and clear that Britain's private schools are a social problem . This book provides warnings and lessons of what doesn't work and ideas of what policies could work to dismantle these 'engines of privilege'" -- Socialist Worker "A fresh dissection of what [Kynaston and Green] deem "Britain's private school problem" . We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters" -- Financial Times "[A] f orensic and damning examination of . "Britain's private school problem"" -- The Week "David Kynaston is one of the great chroniclers of our modern story . Every paragraph contains some glittering nugget" -- Praise for David Kynaston's 'Modernity Britain', Sunday Times "An exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously and plenty of focus on people and their quirks . Fascinating " -- Praise for 'Till Time's Last Sand', The Times "This is the work of a scholar with a gift for illuminating every square inch of each enormous canvas he chooses to paint . Kynaston brings characters large and small to life" -- Praise for 'Till Time's Last Sand', Literary Review "A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals" -- Praise for 'Modernity Britain', Financial Times.