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The author explicitly calls out his school was a comprehensive (i.e. a state run school) - no public school experience in sight. Why the flight to class warfare
by timthorn 14y ago
The author explicitly calls out his school was a comprehensive (i.e. a state run school) - no public school experience in sight. Why the flight to class warfare when this is a discussion about the merits of approaches to education?
- zbuc 14y agoThe real question is why do the British call it "public school" when it's not run by the public? Sounds like they need better English education...
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoSo did I, so did my sons. State schools in America vary, sure. Maybe we were lucky. But the author's conclusion is, British schools are all better than American schools. I call BS.
- timthorn 14y agoI don't think this is about the schools, but more the curriculum. The author's argument is that children should be taught all the disciplines at once rather than sequentially; the fact that he's sending his daughter abroad to achieve that is tangential to the core point.
- corin_ 14y agozbuc 1 hour ago | link [dead] The real question is why do the British call it "public school" when it's not run by the public? Sounds like they need better English education... In reply to this (dead) comment, it's worth noting that while it doesn't seem to make sense now, it did in the past. The term "public school" (which incidentally doesn't apply to all private schools - they are all "independant", they aren't all "public") dates back to when many or most schools were aimed at specific groups of people, such as a local church, or a specific trade. Public school, therefore, meant that it was open to any paying member of the public - as long as they could pay, it didn't matter who they were.