In article , Andy Hall
wrote:
Education is different. Kids learn different things. Kids are worse at
some of the sort of things I was (supposed) to have learnt. Standards
declined? No.

The acid test is the outcome. I am far from being convinced that today's
schools are producing the education required to match the abilities of the
pupils and the needs of the economy.

That's quite a different matter. The needs have changed quite substantially
and there is now far less demand for the illiterate mill-fodder needed in the
50s.

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