Aristide Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > London is the most successful city on the planet > at the moment, our creative industries, the envy > of the world- we must be doing something right. > London's economy is a tribute to the education > system of the past. - given the dominance of the privately educated in arts, sports (excluding Football), business, politics, and most of the creative industries (as we are always being told by the Guardian), + journalism, I don't think it does at all. > > Testing and bashing of professionals whilst > marginalising the value of the arts and sport and > the privatisation of one of the most important > public services doesn't seem a very clever way of > building on what, as the article stated, was a > system on the up. > > The problem with education as that everyone has an > experience of it which makes them think that they > know more than the professionals. You wouldn't do > it with dentists, lawyers or engineers, why do it > with teachers? "You ignorant plebs"