It's not only the quality of the education that's different in public schools to state schools, it's the whole ethos. It's vastly different even for pupils of the same comparable ability. Public schools and their culture of knowing that they are top dogs, the best, the most privileged, encourage confidence in most of their pupils.
Our son went to both a comprehensive, and then to a well known public school while we went abroad, and there was no comparison between them. It's just so taken for granted that the best is there for them - my heart broke when we went round the school for the first time to see how much these children had compared to our local, albeit highly regarded, Village College. The same boy who was ragged for being a compie intake came out looking and behaving like a toff for a while, until he opted to come out again to go to 6th Form college in Cambridge, another hothouse for pampered teens, but nothing like boarding school.
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