And Mr Beard fails to notice the way public schools have reinvented themselves to serve a new plutocratic elite, a group both more sentimental about its children and less tied to the nation state.

比尔德先生没有注意到私校是如何进行自我改造，来为新的财阀精英们服务的，这个群体对自己的孩子更富有感情，与国家的连结更弱。