"b. Tailor an education more specifically to the child. Let everything be available but let?s not force someone who is obviously going to go into something like plumbing (and please don?t ever imagine that I?d think that a lesser trade; far from it) to endure countless wasted hours struggling with Romeo and Juliet, etc. People like to do different things: some people love to play sport. So more sport and less poetry if they want it! A bit of understanding of our differences and diversities." And at 14 my choices would have been 1) Sport 2) Anything that Tina ********** chose 3) Anything with no homework or easy homework..eg Art Thankfully, the school system did (and I presume does) recognise that a)I, like most 14 year old boys who I knew, couldn't give a shite about application and learning and needed to be forced to do it b)rather than being so forward thinking that they could recognise who is actually plumber material ...i dunno, Accent? Wot ther dad does? it should try and provide a reasonably standard set of education accross the board, in the hope that some 'oiks' might suddenly find a passion for say Shakespeare, or trigonomtry, or the laws of gravity, etc as an alternative too plumbing, very useful (and well paid) as it is... sometimes..you/me/one needs a bit of imposed discipline