The latter sometimes but probably wrongly attributed to Wellington. Many ex-pupils, like those from other schools, had, and still have, a nostalgic affection for their old schools (George Orwell remembered being "interested and happy" at Eton,[38]) and a public school tie and "old boy network" of former pupils were useful in advancing a career. The English public school model influenced the 19th-century development of Scottish private schools, but a tradition of the gentry sharing their primary education with their tenants kept Scotland more egalitarian.[39][40]