None of this is particularly new. Tutors and "crammers" make regular appearances in older British fiction. The writer Sidney Smith got his start as tutor to a n

None of this is particularly new. Tutors and "crammers" make regular appearances in older British fiction. The writer Sidney Smith got his start as tutor to a nobleman's son, and facetiously or otherwise suggested that such work was a good step up to a bishopric (though Smith's clerical career not got past dean).