John Prescott on class

[sasguru]

. I got the big c**k .

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[DodgyAgent]

am a

At least I get to keep the word "big" eh, shorty

[sasguru]

At least I get to keep the word "big" eh, shorty

I don't know how that myth got started but hey...

[DodgyAgent]

I don't know how that myth got started but hey...

Someone's been looking down your pants and telling stories

[shoes]

The intelligent/sucessful grammar school ones-aka you lot- do tend to have an inferiority complex

How dare you, I am neither succesful or intelligent.

The joy of going to a public school is that you dont hold anyone in awe. There is no one higher up the ladder that you find intimidating.

I have that, and I didn't go to public school. I also have the opposite, lower down the ladder means as little to me in terms of status as a human being as higher up. I treat the cleaners with as much respect as I would the MD, and why not? Unless you're fresh from the education system I think most people know that people are just people.

Oh except for recruitment consultants.

[Bagpuss]

You said:

"average people and thickos do better out of a public education. So it's a reasonable gamble against the stupidness of your children, if an expensive one." Hardly a "kernel" of truth is it?

If my child is "intellectually challenged" and I send him to a private school why is that such a gamble? I am not sending him there to get a PHD in Nuclear Science I am sending him there so that the school can bring the best out of him in order that he can be best prepared for the big bad world outside.

I meant state school swallows up and spits out average/under average children, whereas bright kids will always tend to do well wherever. Therefore, less intelligent kids do better outside of state education, smaller class sizes, networking etc. So I believe private education adds less value to bright kids than dimmer ones, so it's an insurance policy against the stupidity of your children.

[DodgyAgent]

How dare you, I am neither succesful or intelligent.




I have that, and I didn't go to public school. I also have the opposite, lower down the ladder means as little to me in terms of status as a human being as higher up. I treat the cleaners with as much respect as I would the MD, and why not? Unless you're fresh from the education system I think most people know that people are just people.

Oh except for recruitment consultants.

I almost agree with you

[DodgyAgent]

I meant state school swallows up and spits out average/under average children, whereas bright kids will always tend to do well wherever. Therefore, less intelligent kids do better outside of state education, smaller class sizes, networking etc. So I believe private education adds less value to bright kids than dimmer ones, so it's an insurance policy against the stupidity of your children.

Thanks for explaining it in terms that I can understand.

[Bob Dalek]

Fatty Prescott: a foul-smelling dog egg and a class criminal. Come the Glorious Day, etc.

[Beefy198]

[QUOTE=DodgyAgent;668928]How many public school boys do you actually know?.

Oh lets see.... My wife went to a private school for several years. Her younger half-sisters still do. My best mate's boyfriend, people at uni... should I go on?

Some of them, in fact, do have a complex and it's nothing to do with a fear of inferiority from me. My wife will be the first to admit that she's glad she wasn't at a private school for her whole education, no matter how 'good' it would have been with her academically.

The eldest of her two half sisters is basically a walking stereotype with all her airs and graces. She once told us about an argument she had had with someone where she said that because of her education she was better than him