Monday 24 March 2008

Of Sacredness, Scholarship and Snobbery

I have yet to hear the result of the NUT Conference's vote on church schools. But how many secular public schools are there? We all know that the real objection to "faith schools" is that Catholic ones have been so good at, according to the old Christian Brothers' maxim, "taking the sons of dockers and turning them into doctors".

The professions, and thus the places where professional people live, now contain any number of people originally from Scotland, the North, the Midlands and the less salubrious parts of the South, with working-class grandparents or even parents, and with Irish great-grandparents.

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