Why so facetious ? It is a plain and simple truth that just by attending a British public school you increase your statistical chances of getting a 'good' job, of being a senior judge, Minister, Civil Servant, PM etc etc etc. It makes it easier than if you do not.
The profession of teaching should start from a variant of that which medicine starts with. Do as little harm as possible. Everything else should come after that overriding objective.EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Fri 11 Dec 2020 11:32 amThey are as good or as flawed as the rest of us nothing to do with what school they went to.
School can and does 'make the person' for many many people to large and significant degrees and in ways that can take a lifetime to unravel. That is certainly the case for me and I find it inconceivable to imagine that someone like Boris Johnson would not be different in material ways and degrees had he had a different education experience to the one he did have.
The obscenity of public tax payers money being used to subsidies things like the building of a new indoor olympic size pool and sports complex at my old 'alma mata' to the tune of millions of pounds under the charity gift aid rules is not my main problem with the institution of the British public school system.
The fundamental hypocrisy and inequity of bought advantage in the form of increased potential life outcome chances is not my main problem with the institution of the British public school system either.
Anyone at any kind of school can end up messed up in bad ways by their experience, or not. I contend, from statistical evidence, personal experience and common sense combined that the chances you might be badly damaged as a person by your educational experience is statistically greater if you attend a classic British public school than if you do not.
The British public school system is structurally brutalising to children by design to a degree that should no longer be acceptable to society in the year 2020. There is simply no need any more. The system was designed and shaped from the 1900s onwards to turn out hardy, self reliant, emotionally stunted functionaries for all levels within the empire that already understood those hierarchies and their place within them. We simply do not have to put children through this any more with all the risks it entails for that child and the person they go to become. There is no empire any more. It is just unnecessary.
The elite will always be the elite but that does not mean I should accept that they have to risk damaging their children through education just in order to be in the elite club.
My main problem with the British public school system is that the chances it will seriously mess up any given individual are higher than in other forms of education and unacceptably high in the year 2020. Higher to a degree that should not be acceptable.
That is just total and utter rubbish. I know this from every second of my person experience to date and I know it just by looking at the data. If you take a metric like exam results there will be British public schools in that list but there will also be schools that are not such in the list, state and academies these days and others. There are good state schools and there are bad Public schools across all metrics is the simple reality. With a metric like exam results being 'top' is nothing to do with state or public school. It is down to selective or not. Some state schools are selective. All public schools are selective. It is not rocket science to understand why selection is the single biggest factor in becoming a 'top school' by something like exam results, not just in the UK but world wide. The idea that all state education is the same, it is all bad and none of it will give a level of education needed to do an 'important' job are all just patent nonsense to me. As is the idea that all public schools do provide this 'level of education' and that explains the number of 'top' people from these schools without any mention what so ever of the 'old school tie' system and its variants.EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Fri 11 Dec 2020 11:32 amTo do those sort of jobs you need a certain level of education what the state sector isn’t supplying. Our schooling system is more interested in looking after the interests of the teachers not the children.
First and foremost I just do not want people messed up by school more than can be avoided or is necessary. That is what the British public school system does. That we then have a habit of taking the most messed up unfortunates, the ones most severely damaged by it and then systematically place them in positions of power and wonder why things go wrong is a side consequence of the problem, not the problem itself.EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Fri 11 Dec 2020 11:32 amRather than improve state education the left just want to complain about private education. Obviously it’s lip service as they make liberal use of it themselves.