Melbourne 最有影响力的男校Scotch 中学 为澳州培养出最多的优秀和有影响力的人才。
在所分析的435名从1975年来第一次获得国家最高荣誉表彰的人群显示：这些人不同比例的来自不多的几个维省精英中学。
Scotch 中学有19名获得国家最高荣誉表彰的前学生包括：前总督Zelman Cowen爵士， 历史学家Hugh Stretton， 高级法院法官Kenneth Hayne； 土族眼卫生开创人教授Hugh Taylor和前塔斯马尼亚总理Jim Bacon.
唯一排在Scotch 中学之后的是Geelong 文法学院，前学生中有：查尔斯王子， Rupert Murdoch, 共有17人获得国家最高荣誉表彰。
列入前30的唯一的公校中学：Melbourne High School它的前学生中包括：诺贝尔奖获得者神经生理学家John Eccles，和前储备银行总督Ian Macfarlane，共有6人 获得国家最高荣誉奖。然而维省之外的两家公立精英中学：Sydney Boys' High，和 Fort Street High 在前学生获得国家最高荣誉奖人次中被排第3 和 并列第4。
Melbourne大学教授Jack Keating 说：不象 Melbourne； Sydney有近20家精英学校， Sydney Boys 和Fort Street 有着较长的建校史， 所以经济和社会人才更原意将他们的孩子送往这两家学校就读。
精英学校受到中产阶级的晴睐。 很多律师阶层和专业人士均来自这些高中。
由Melbourne大学研究人Mark Peel 和Janet McCalman 对人们的教育背景的分析得出：Scotch 中学在所有的学校中名列前茅。
Ties that bind prove a private education has its awards
ONE of Melbourne's bastions of male privilege - Scotch College - has educated more of Australia's most honoured and influential citizens than any other school in the nation.
An analysis of the 435 people who have received the nation's top Order of Australia honours since they were first awarded in 1975, shows they disproportionately attended a handful of elite Victorian secondary schools.
Scotch College alumni blitzed the field, with 19 former students receiving Australia's highest honour, including former governor-general Sir Zelman Cowen, historian Hugh Stretton, High Court judge Kenneth Hayne, indigenous eye health pioneer Professor Hugh Taylor and former Tasmanian premier Jim Bacon.
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The only school that comes close is Geelong Grammar, with former students, including Prince Charles and Rupert Murdoch, receiving 17 honours.
Alumni from the two schools have received more than 8 per cent of all the knight, dame or Companion of the Order of Australia honours - more than all the schools in each of Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, ACT and Northern Territory.
The analysis provides a fascinating insight into the transfer of social advantage through the school system, with independent schools dominating rankings in Victoria.
The only government school in Victoria to be ranked in the top 30 was the selective-entry Melbourne High School, whose alumni - including Nobel prizewinning neurophysiologist John Eccles and former Reserve Bank governor Ian Macfarlane - received six honours. However, study author Rohan Reid said outside of Victoria the dominant schools were not always private, with former students from the selective state schools Sydney Boys' High and Fort Street High receiving the third and equal fourth highest number of awards.
Professor Jack Keating from the University of Melbourne said that unlike Melbourne, Sydney had about 20 selective-entry high schools. ''Sydney Boys and Fort Street are long-established, so the economic and social elite will be more inclined to send their kids there,'' Professor Keating said.
''The selective-entry high schools have been favoured by a certain middle class on the Labor side of politics. A lot of the lawyers' class and the professional class comes through these schools, whereas in Melbourne, the law and medical classes tend to come through the private schools.''
He said the study mirrored the findings of Melbourne University researchers Mark Peel and Janet McCalman, who analysed the educational backgrounds of the people listed in the 1988 Who's Who. Again, Scotch College outranked all other schools.
Professor David Penington, an Old Scotch Collegian who was made a companion of the Order of Australia in 1988 for his service to medicine and the community, believes the school's Scottish Presbyterian background meant it has always placed a strong emphasis on community contribution.
It's a sentiment shared by former premier and old Scotch boy Jeff Kennett, AC, who still recalls the words of former headmaster Richard Selby Smith. ''He used to say to us that we had an obligation to the college when we left school - it wasn't all about money, it was actually about service. It was something that stuck in my mind as a young boy.''
Mr Kennett believes Order of Australia honours should reward what people do outside their jobs.
''I think there are so many people who consistently give to the community, who don't get the recognition they deserve,'' he said. Author Shane Maloney infamously described Scotch College as a ''machine for the transmission of inherited privilege'' during a creative writing seminar at the school nine years ago.
Asked whether the analysis of Order of Australia honours reinforced his view that Scotch was a factory of privilege, Mr Maloney said: ''You could draw that conclusion. Alternatively, the argument could be put that it simply reinforces the value parents get for their money.''
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