Governments have been raising the school leaving age for decades, but what has this actually achieved? If the time spent in class was a measure of how educated the country was, it would be marvellous.
Is schooling as we know it coming to an end? Governments have been raising the English school-leaving age for decades, compelling more and more boys and girls to stay at school when they don't want to. But has this made us a more educated country?
I am weary of reading about some person that he was the first of his family to go to university as if this meant he was introduced to some vast, glittering stairway to genius. As far as I can tell the main purpose of university is to get a man to reject his father's opinions, not to make him know more.
Most people cannot afford to pay private fees to escape them. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, a stern dogmatic leveller, is determined to make sure that even fewer will be able to do so. The Great Panic over Covid, and the long, futile closures of schools which resulted, made many realise what they were actually getting for their tax money.
Read More PETER HITCHENS: Schools would rather fill heads with propaganda than have children learn by heart No doubt some of the home-schooling going on is pretty bad and there is an increased danger of abuse to children who are not attending school. But the current rebellion against school is caused by desperation among parents with no money, who can see no other way to save their children from Ms Phillipson's horrible comprehensive monopoly.Don't like the Crown? Don't take the gong Former New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern is made a Dame by the Prince of Wales
If she thinks monarchy is wrong, she just shouldn't take such decorations. If she now accepts that it is a good idea, then she should say so. One or the other. Not both.
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