It's not all about schools - luck and character help determine life chances

As Michael Gove and Sir Michael Wilshaw know, brains are occasionally

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Reading Michael Gove

handle disproportionate that private schools are still on the upper slopes of British life, I remembered the day when he shot an email to a colleague breakfast, saying that his latest article was so upset that I had gone straight who is who to see that public schools had made him so cross.

Secretary of Education is a brilliant man who has a very useful role of luck in most of life. Gove was adopted as a baby by a fishmonger support Labour Aberdeen and his wife, who knew the value of education and sent him to school with a famous Scottish public for a scholarship. The Oxford Times and now the cabinet. Michael Clever, luck Michael.

You can read his speech here and a militant antidote function (written before the speech was published, I think) for the analysis here. It was written by our own George Monbiot on the grounds that he was one of public figures reported by Gove as a product of public education. Judges and politicians, business leaders and the media, theater and the arts - we all know that the list is very long

From what I can see, online readers are overwhelmingly hostile to Gove and agrees with GM, which is an example of a cynical strategy based on the class that is designed to raise the drawbridge behind the privileged and the rest of us rot. Besides the fact that this is a story very ahistorical take Tory party since Disraeli, that does not match Gove own house, let alone what he said in his speech Thursday (private) University Brighton.

Therefore, the article that caught my attention was also sitting next to Jessica Shepherd Gove report expression in the print edition of The Guardian, in which Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of Ofsted government says teachers with better pay and more independent than ever and they should stop complaining. "You do not know what stress is"

leaders of the teachers union (not always typical of the teacher, I realize) were very angry about this and we can all see why. Teaching can be stressful, especially in poor schools. When I was in Basildon, after David Cameron and Nick Clegg in his expedition of Essex this week, the local newspaper was dominated by Rory Fox, the new leader of Basildon Academies, appealing to parents to support the transformation of the failing schools around them, ending a takeover, the restoration of discipline and standards. This is a family program, not limited to the hometown of Andy Coulson.

conjecture Gove and Wilshaw - a former head turning - knows. Gove speech, Brighton moved from its focus on the achievements of the private sector to say how they make some public schools, despite a large number of poor students. "We have thousands of excellent public schools," he said. Some disadvantaged children and their schools come from behind to do better than average, despite their free school meals, he said.

In Britain, the percentage is better on the back is 24% in Finland to 45% in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai is 76% - Tiger new mothers, by the sound of it itself. What is he trying to say is that fatalism is incorrect. More than that, even in Britain unbalanced "the tide is turning" - that schools are improving Gove remedy. This is the one who tries to compensate for early disadvantage (which occurs rapidly in performance), with particular attention to the age of two to three for most people at risk -. But focuses primarily on greater freedoms for schools of uniformity and standards

is easy to find flaws in this approach, select the folder of irregular migration academies (and their budget windfall caused by errors in Whitehall) and discard the movement of the free school as well-intentioned, but the best eccentrics. I would do the same if we were talking about courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, which some readers cling to the comforting idea that 7% of private education to obtain a greater share of senior management of life on merit.

They do not. What they get is due to several factors outside the innate talent, a family environment that values ??education and ambition (money is not essential but it helps) and feeds work hard and discipline in their children. Private schools are good to take beta-less material and polishing as well as beta-standards. This is what people pay.

What I run here, is not a cure Monbiot problem much like lost status of the school talent - at the expense of the persons concerned and society in general. The abolition of private education is not a very practical approach, let alone a good, fun, although it may be to scare people complacent. What they teach at this school!

• is also one that can destroy an entire industry value of British exports. Our large private schools (and some not so great) to attract many foreign buyers, so you need to do something that works well in a globalized world and elitist. Even the leaders of the Maoist Chinese send their children here, we learned of the case of Bo.
• scholarships for poor children smarter than Gove, more outreach to the community in general, increased pressure to obtain charitable status, all contribute. But more importantly, the parts of underperforming state schools sector are not limited to cities or neighborhoods both poor must raise their game and the aspirations they have for students and other smart

not take my word for it. Here's a report saying that the aspirations of low confidence admirable Sutton founded by Sir Peter Lampl, the son of a refugee (as Nadhim Zahawi, the MP whose views on politics of Shakespeare were issued on Thursday), which made a fortune, and now has part of it is aimed at promoting social mobility enjoyed - but that has since collapsed bad enough in Britain, more than anywhere else

Why? Nostalgic conservative think this is the replacement of secondary schools through the general system in most places, but Gove and David Willetts, the minister of universities, are too smart for it: the grammars were brilliant in its time much better than most public schools had to improve their game but also left behind many young talents. Technicians do not fill the void as they did in Germany.

Yes, class is always a factor, so cash is by students and the rest. But are not the only and should always be challenged - for children, families and schools. Brains is, given the slightest opportunity. Eton beat them at their own game

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