Reading the article “Education” by E.B.White, I recall a personal experience, which I had to deal with two years ago when my family and I wondered if it would be better for me to attend a private school in Athens, Zyrithy, or my local public school in Oropos. All began one day in July when a family friend spoke to my parent about the huge opportunities which a private school supplied. He also spoke about the success of private education in the Paneladices exams. Finally he managed to convince my parents that a private school was the best for me in order to achieve my purpose and succeed in passing the exams for the Greek universities. At the beginning, I was hesitant on deciding to attend the private school due to some false biases. However after I attended that school, l realized that although the basic education system is the same among private and public education, the differences between concern the quality of education.All the residents of my village believed as E.B.White did some “bias that public school is over private” ( E.B.White 41). One of the most common stereotypes, which affected me about private education, was the idea that only wealthy children attend in private schools. This made me anxious, for I was from a middle class family, so how could I adapt to another surrounding and how would be able my parents to pay so much money? On the other hand in public education almost everyone could attend from the richest child on the earth to the poorest immigrants. So anyone can easily adapt without make their parents suffer from financial bills. Furthermore, I was afraid that it would be impossible for me to make new friends because of the social gap between the rich children and myself. They would speak about their expensive interests like riding a horse, or an expensive car, but I wasn’t interested in all that. On the contrary, in the public education “ a great variety of children...
