Jack Wands, meanwhile, was the first ever pupil at St Andrew's Roman Catholic school in Glasgow to get an offer from either Oxford or Cambridge.
The film follows his journey from composing songs aged three and being transfixed by Fantasia and 2001: Space Odyssey to his golden days as the youngest ever pupil of the legendary composer Olivier Messiaen in Paris.
No policy, procedure or school rule ever altered pupils' behaviour on its own.
But it is folly to think that unpopular schools will simply disappear given the inevitably limited capacity of good schools to take on ever more pupils.
The charities regulator in Scotland has reviewed private schools there and told three, including Fettes, Mr Blair's alma mater, to demonstrate that they provide a "public benefit" or risk losing this perk.As their domestic difficulties grow, though, Britain's private schools suck in ever more pupils from across the world.
For example, studies lead by Shauna L Shapiro of Santa Clara University have found that awareness of one's state of mind can improve coping strategies for dealing with the stress of everyday life, which may benefit students under pressure to attain high grades or teachers targeting ever higher pupil targets.
Nothing in the letter suggests that Plato was ever the pupil of Archytas; instead the relationship is much closer to that presented in the Erotic Oration.
First, he criticised "grade inflation", the process of awarding pupils ever higher marks (half the grades given to undergraduates were As).
As well as changing hands between England and Scotland 13 times between 1482, it famously appeared as a separate party in Britain's declaration of war on Russia over the Crimea (but not in the peace treaty, to the delight of school history pupils ever since).
Donovan, a veteran comic actress who has turned her original "Late Nite Catechism" into a theatrical empire, is as sharp as ever, hovering over "pupils" in the audience and brandishing her pointer as a ruler.
Youngest pupil ever at the prestigious Purcell School.
