The
topic was education and the part private fee paying education turns out
achievers when set against the failure which the State schools inflict
on some of their pupils.
People like the pupils they once were, come I all shapes and sizes.
In primary school by the nature of the way the children are taught, not so much as a class but as individuals, primary school kids move into "the big school" more of less on a par and emotionally stable. The young chap who was being interviewed had come top of his primary school class but on entering senior school plummeted down the ranks to leave at 15 without any academic qualifications. It's as if for 4 years he had been absent.
His one spark of hope had been Science where a teacher had seen something and taken him under their wing.
It was an interview with a person for whom the educational system had failed him completely.
The guy doing the interview has admitted in the past and again today that without his private education he would not be doing the job he does now and we should all of us lambaste, as heinous this system of choosing winners and losers based on the ability to pay fees.
I have said in the past and written to the Education Minister that funds in education should be switched around so that the bottom group should have the 'most and the best' to ignite what is truthfully in all of us. The Money spent would be recouped many times over, not just in having a productive workforce set against unemployable dole seekers which cast the Exchequer millions but it would provide the missing link which all disadvantaged societies encounter, a sense of empowerment which education brings.
Irrespective of background and short of having some disability which makes learning very difficult (and even there money can fix things) the effort in placing a child on a footing so that they can compete for work is a "responsibility", probably the most important responsibility the State can offer.
The continued segregation practised by the Establishment of "private education" is not to provide a "hot house" for talent but as a protection for those possibly less talented.
It's a guarantee that at least literate and partially numerate, with tutoring the Boardroom will find a place for you.
People like the pupils they once were, come I all shapes and sizes.
In primary school by the nature of the way the children are taught, not so much as a class but as individuals, primary school kids move into "the big school" more of less on a par and emotionally stable. The young chap who was being interviewed had come top of his primary school class but on entering senior school plummeted down the ranks to leave at 15 without any academic qualifications. It's as if for 4 years he had been absent.
His one spark of hope had been Science where a teacher had seen something and taken him under their wing.
It was an interview with a person for whom the educational system had failed him completely.
The guy doing the interview has admitted in the past and again today that without his private education he would not be doing the job he does now and we should all of us lambaste, as heinous this system of choosing winners and losers based on the ability to pay fees.
I have said in the past and written to the Education Minister that funds in education should be switched around so that the bottom group should have the 'most and the best' to ignite what is truthfully in all of us. The Money spent would be recouped many times over, not just in having a productive workforce set against unemployable dole seekers which cast the Exchequer millions but it would provide the missing link which all disadvantaged societies encounter, a sense of empowerment which education brings.
Irrespective of background and short of having some disability which makes learning very difficult (and even there money can fix things) the effort in placing a child on a footing so that they can compete for work is a "responsibility", probably the most important responsibility the State can offer.
The continued segregation practised by the Establishment of "private education" is not to provide a "hot house" for talent but as a protection for those possibly less talented.
It's a guarantee that at least literate and partially numerate, with tutoring the Boardroom will find a place for you.
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