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punch a commie today
Before egalitarianism took root in 1960s Britain there was a Grammar school system which aimed to give an elite classical education to the brightest children of the poor, for free. It worked very well in the postwar period, and people from working class backgrounds were storming Oxbridge without any quotas or lowering of entry standards. They were so good that they hammered most of the expensive private schools and were only beaten by the very top public schools like Winchester and Eton. Social mobility was higher than it had ever been before or since. They were destroyed in 1968 by left-wing egalitarian zealots in one of the nastiest acts of political spite I can think of. Anthony Crossland, the education secretary responsible for it, was reported by his own wife to have said "if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every f*****g grammar school in England and Wales". The words of a man frothing with ideological frenzy rather than those of one making a dispassionate practical decision in the national interest. He managed to destroy most of them. Thirty years later, Blair made the creation of new Grammar schools illegal. Ever since, most of the intelligent but poor children have been condemned to rubbish schools that waste their talents, and the entire country has suffered as a result.
I've read something by Peter Hitchens that said that most people misunderstand Orwell's meaning in his famous 'Animal Farm' slogan, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". Most people who quote it seem to think it means that the elite are more 'equal'. The reverse is true: they are less equal. It's obvious once you think about it. Equality, and the fruits thereof, is for the plebs: rubbish schools more interested in imparting egalitarian dogma than knowledge, a lowering of standards in just about everything, and a culture full of nasty drivel. If you have the wealth and the resources you can escape it by buying a good education for your child, and paying for them to experience beauty. Why on Earth should the elite choose equality for themselves, when they can buy quality instead?
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It's staggering when you think about.
Tony Blair, real name Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, educated at private elite school Fettes in Edinburgh, followed by Oxford, goes on to lay the smack down on the elitism of grammer schools.
They want to rule over us like Gods.
Before egalitarianism took root in 1960s Britain there was a Grammar school system which aimed to give an elite classical education to the brightest children of the poor, for free. It worked very well in the postwar period, and people from working class backgrounds were storming Oxbridge without any quotas or lowering of entry standards. They were so good that they hammered most of the expensive private schools and were only beaten by the very top public schools like Winchester and Eton. Social mobility was higher than it had ever been before or since. They were destroyed in 1968 by left-wing egalitarian zealots in one of the nastiest acts of political spite I can think of. Anthony Crossland, the education secretary responsible for it, was reported by his own wife to have said "if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every f*****g grammar school in England and Wales". The words of a man frothing with ideological frenzy rather than those of one making a dispassionate practical decision in the national interest. He managed to destroy most of them. Thirty years later, Blair made the creation of new Grammar schools illegal. Ever since, most of the intelligent but poor children have been condemned to rubbish schools that waste their talents, and the entire country has suffered as a result.
I've read something by Peter Hitchens that said that most people misunderstand Orwell's meaning in his famous 'Animal Farm' slogan, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". Most people who quote it seem to think it means that the elite are more 'equal'. The reverse is true: they are less equal. It's obvious once you think about it. Equality, and the fruits thereof, is for the plebs: rubbish schools more interested in imparting egalitarian dogma than knowledge, a lowering of standards in just about everything, and a culture full of nasty drivel. If you have the wealth and the resources you can escape it by buying a good education for your child, and paying for them to experience beauty. Why on Earth should the elite choose equality for themselves, when they can buy quality instead?
...
It's staggering when you think about.
Tony Blair, real name Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, educated at private elite school Fettes in Edinburgh, followed by Oxford, goes on to lay the smack down on the elitism of grammer schools.
They want to rule over us like Gods.
