Memories of school days

Surrounded by fabulous greenery at St Edward's College and in splendid isolation in its quiet earlier days, we were subjected to the reality that the English language had a universal dimension and was the accepted medium of communication of many nations, fostered by the intellectual aristocracy in the world of literature. To this level we were seriously made to aspire, in style and in diction, far beyond what was commonly held to be necessary. But these were days of Empire. The language was modelled on the Etonian dream, which the college then personified as "the greatest possession we have". This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.

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