Actual dystopia, surely? He was referring to major flaws of the two stream, grammar and secondary modern, school system in place in the UK at the time. That it

Actual dystopia, surely? He was referring to major flaws of the two stream, grammar and secondary modern, school system in place in the UK at the time. That it led to "an obsession with quantification, test-scoring, and qualifications". So we still inhabit it. That two tier education was supposed to be a three stream system including technical schools for engineering and trades, except almost none of those were built. So the UK spent decades wondering aloud why our education couldn't turn out engineers and tradespeople like Germany. Subsequent UK attempts at school specialisation have been even worse.