We should know better

"Educational apartheid between state and private schools is the unmentionable reality of the British system: segregation, separate development and a tacit acceptance that the opportunities of one 'race' of pupils will always be superior to those of another. This two-nation system is doomed to fail not only individual schoolchildren but the country as a whole." "George Walden breaks all the Left-Right taboos. He demonstrates the inherent failings of John Major's nostalgia for grammar schools and assisted places, and the corrosive anti-intellectualism of so much comprehensive teaching. Education today determines the society of the future: its richness, its cultural values, its prosperity. Here is a route to that future, a break with our failed, segregated past."--Jacket