Experiment House

"Owing to the curious methods of teaching at Experiment House, one did not learn much French of Maths or Latin or things of that sort; but one did learn about getting away quickly when They were looking for one."

- Description of Experiment House

Experiment House was the coeducational boarding school that Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole attended and where they met. It was a poorly managed school, where no one was ever punished, and as a result there was a lot of bullying, and not much learning.

Eustace and Jill were trying to escape from bullies when they accidentally entered Narnia through a door in the school grounds outer wall. At the end of their adventures in Narnia, Eustace and Jill, with the assistance of Aslan and Caspian meted out some punishment to the bullies with the flats of their swords and a riding crop, causing the Head of the school to call the police and tell them of escaped convicts and circus animals. The police, however, could find no proof of this and, as a result, the Head of the school was removed and the bullies were expelled. The school became a much better school because of these events.

When Professor Kirke makes his often-heard comment, "...what do they teach them at these schools?", this may be the sort of school he is referring to.

Trivia
Experiment House was inspired by C.S Lewis's nearly always bad schooling experiences.