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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Public schoolboys

June 24, 2009 08:13
1 min read

I took part last night in the first Spectator debate. You can read about it here.

Especially interesting was the barbed comment at the end of David Davis' speech. He was arguing alongside me in favour of grammar schools:

Today we are witnessing the results of a failed revolution, where
egalitarians abolished grammar schools to level opportunity in our
society, and accidentally destroyed the chances of the very people they
were trying to help.

They punished the bright poor kids who were held back. They handicapped the intellectual capacity of the country.