I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English โeducationโ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school โ I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet โ but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.
George OrwellThe mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.
George Orwell