Orwell described the traditional boarding-school education given to upper-class English boys as “five years in a lukewarm bath of snobbery.” John Derbyshire describes a modern university education as a warm bath of Political Correctness:
I upgraded the metaphor from lukewarm to warm because of the crude force and intimidation that is used when ramming PC down college freshman throats — so much coarser than the gentle, subliminal indoctrination carried out at Orwell’s Eton.