House shrink

Readers with good memories will recall a post in November 2015 noticing an advertisment for a psychologist to join the pastoral care team at Eton College.

Today, not much more than a year later, we have another, similar advertisement. Is it for a different member of the team, or has it been all too much for the successful candidate on that last occasion?

As it happens, I was reminded the other day of a more than fifty year old anecdote from a carpentry teacher, from Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge. He went on a visit to the carpentry workshops at Eton and his report to me was that he had never seen such splendid workshops in a school. Everything that money could do had been done.

I wonder if their workshops have survived or whether they have they morphed into computer laboratories for boys who want to play at writing computer games rather than play at building bookcases? One could have a good long argument in the pub about which of the two activities was the more worthy, with either going some way to staving off the need for a psychologist of any variety. Constructional and creative hobbies of any variety healthy.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/house-shrink.html.