Jonathan Thomson-Glover, 53, who taught German and was head of house Clifton College in Bristol for more than 30-years, pleaded guilty to 36 counts of making, taking and possessing indecent images of children.
The charges related to more than 120 victims filmed by hidden cameras at the £30,000 a year boarding school and at an address in Cornwall over a 16-year period.
Thomson-Glover, of Wadebridge, Cornwall, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Judge David Ticehurst at Taunton Crown Court.
The judge told him: "You are a man looking at a life that is now in ruins. That life was a good life and you have made a positive contribution.
"It is a life now reduced to rubble as a result of your fatal flaw. You are the author of your own misfortune and there can be little sympathy for you.
"It is impossible to calculate the harm and damage you may have caused to those who trusted you or were in your care."
Thomson-Glover remained emotionless as he was led from the dock.
He was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register indefinitely and banned from working with children on his release.
He was arrested last year after it was alleged he had installed cameras around the school to spy on boys.
Police said there was no evidence the alleged crimes involved any contact offences with pupils and no other staff at the school were thought to have been involved.
-Telegraph
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