On 2008-07-25 12:37:23 +0100, stuart noble said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-07-25 09:41:44 +0100, stuart noble said:

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
stuart noble writes:
IME bright kids will sail through their A levels, whatever system they're in.

I thought all kids sailed through their A levels nowadays?


No point in private education on academic grounds then.

Depends on how many A levels and also the impact with university
entrance grades (they adjust accordngly), plus of course choice of
universities and the possibility of scholarships and bursaries.

Secondly, education is not about imparting information in order to pass
exams. That's training and is for monkeys. Education is about
discovering how to go about learning - finding, sifting and
assimilating appropriate information for the tasks at hand. By virtue
of the different ethic and much better teacher pupil ratio, this most
important aspect of education can be facilitated in the independent
sector. The state is unable to do this because it wants to treat
everybody in the same way regardless of suitability.




Separating children at primary school age is truly wicked, and is more
about their ambitious parents than the welfare of the child.

They aren't separated. In fact, when my children moved to private
school, they ended up with a far wider circle of friends in terms of
different cultures, abilities and geographies than ever they had at the
local state school. The latter was very inward looking to the "local
community" with its limited vision of the world.