The Education Question

I used to work as a teacher before changing career. Here is a short video to introduce today’s post:

Education in the US and UK is a vexed question. The answer of the Left is to keep private business out of education, to throw more money at the system, and to insist on theoretical models that treat children as objects to be manipulated, rather than human beings with free will. Whenever the Conservative government raises the suggestion of bringing back Grammar Schools, the suggestion is met with opprobrium and charges that such a system hurts the poor – when in fact such school allow intelligent children from poorer backgrounds to learn skills that will aid their social mobility.

Education, because it involves humans, needs to be understood holistically, not just in economic terms (although they are relevant). One of the reasons why the free market is relevant to this debate…