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Sir William Gowers made three significant choices affecting his sons’ careers, the last perhaps dictating the previous two: he chose Rugby as their public school, Classics as their subject, and entry into the Civil Service for their careers. The public school curriculum, the Classics courses at Oxford and Cambridge, and the entrance examination into the Civil Service were closely linked. Anyone wishing to gain a place as a First Division clerk in the late nineteenth century was well advised to study classics.
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Scott, A. (2009). Education for Public Service. In: Ernest Gowers. Understanding Governance series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244306_2
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