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   "Joe Fineman"  wrote in message   
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   > "JOHNNY SHARP"  writes:   
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   > > "AIR COMMODORE RAYMOND"  wrote in message   
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   > >> Why then did he have he son's name down for Eton?*   
   > >   
   > > Anyone? Anyone?....   
   >   
   >   In another year or so I shall have to be thinking about Richard's   
   >   schooling, but I am not making any plans because one can't see far   
   >   ahead now.  I am not going to let him go to a boarding school   
   >   before he is ten, and I would like him to start off at the   
   >   elementary school.  If I could find a good one.  It's a difficult   
   >   question.  Obviously it is democratic for everyone to go to the   
   >   same schools, or at least start off there but when you see what   
   >   the elementary schools are like, and the results, you feel that   
   >   any child that has the chance should be rescued from them.  It is   
   >   quite easy, for instance, to leave those schools at 14 without   
   >   having learned to read.[...]  I remember in 1936 meeting John   
   >   Strachey in the street -- then a CP member or at least on the   
   >   staff of the _Worker_ -- and him telling me he had just had a son   
   >   and was putting him down for Eton.  I said "How can you do that?"   
   >   and he said that given our existing society it was the best   
   >   education.  Actually I doubt whether it is the best, but in   
   >   principle I don't feel sure that he was wrong.   
   >                             -- to Julian Symonds (1948); CEJL IV:451   
      
   The Left are EXACTLY the same now; even after they got their way and   
   introduced comprehensives.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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