A foreign visitor to England finds English education hard to understand. This is because there is not just one educational system but a number of systems existing side by side.
First of all we can divide the schools into three kinds according to whom they belong to. 1There are private school, 2public school 3state school. the private schools are run as private profit-making business usually owned by the headmaster. They are mostly for younger children. The parents pay fees.
Second there are the public schools. They are public in the sense that they are not private owned by individuals but they are not owned by the government.
They are governed by their own school committees. They charge fees but do not aim to make a profit.