Didn’t We Do Well And The Elite
ON doing well at school:
The idea that we should seek to equalise outcomes between the “highly motivated” and the “less well motivated” is interesting. It suggests that giving everyone the chance to do well means (in the minds of people like Baroness Blackstone) neutering “doing well” to the point where everyone does well, regardless. Demanding that all universities have resources “concentrated” on them, across the board, is equally vacuous. “Achievement for all”; “resources concentrated on every area” — meaningless slogans, no doubt intended to sound appealing.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
State school education stinks across the board.
I was in a private school - got kicked out - went to one of the best state schools in Scotland (and while I was never in any danger of getting my head kicked in) the superficial crap they taught was pretty shocking. I got an A in English and I hadn’t even read the book I was answering questions on.
If you want to know anything, you have to learn on your own - and that’s the difference between the motivated kids and the kids who are a bit lost.