THE LAST DITCH
Decades of "progressive" education have done terrible damage to British society. It's hard to imagine how that evil genie can ever be put back in the bottle and yet it's essential. If you doubt the scale of the task, compare and contrast.
A study of the 1980s schools boycott in South Africa, during the Apartheid years, and the subsequent results thereof, might provide some illumination?
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Just study the Question Time audience any Thursday night on TV. The lack of critical thought, the slavish adherence to the left, and the cheers and applause whenever meaningless terms like “change”, and “progressive” are used on the panel.
Last night’s QT was particularly upsetting as the audience contained more students than usual. The results of state education brainwashing were plain to see. It made me sad to see the clearly intelligent and committed younger generation, with so much potential to improve the world, so totally blinkered and close-minded.
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I have to say, I don’t agree with the Tories plans on schools.
Whatever one says about Comprehensive schools, they do bring all children up together, learning to mix in a classless society.
Education is about more than just exams.
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Grammar schools were classless. Working class kids got into them – just not dumb ones like John Prescott. Selective education has nothing to do with class (unless you are saying – rather offensively – that all working class kids must by definition be thick) and everything to do with educational opportunity. I don’t agree with the Tories on education either, because they pander to daft ideas like yours.
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
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