"We need elitism in schools" Do you agree with Dave?

[Pantone]

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8751220/David-Cameron-we-need-elitism-in-schools.html

What do you think of this?

Good parents will always try to do best for their chidlren which means some children will always have advantages. It's just how it is.

Doesn;t mean we have to accept it or be happy with it though.

after all if people always just decided to accept things how they are where would we all be? if the Pankhursts, Ghandhi, Churchill had taken that approach?

It's the same thing but at a micro level.

I am about the same age as David Cameron.

I went to a comp. and achieved all As at O-level and A-level and then got a first at Cambridge.

David Cameron went to Eton and got Cs, Bs and As at O-level.

Therefore, he is either really dim (could he have not done better at a school that is meant to be fantastic?) or Eton was really rubbish back then.

Or, I am incredibly bright!

I think he's dim - he just soundbites what he thinks people are thinking...
I don't think children need all the facilities of a public school - that's what free time is for. They need good teaching but - to be honest - even that is overrated. To get into good universities, they just need to be bright.

At Cambridge, I had no idea what type of schools people had gone to, but you could tell everyone was clever. What they had done at school, how they had been taught became irrelevant in the academically charged atmosphere of Cambridge.

When DC went to Eton it was non selective you put a child's name down at birth and I agree that it takes more than good teachers and facilities to achieve A's. But now Eton and others of the same ilk are very selective so they are now able to combine brains with jaw dropping facilities an ethos of there is no limits and lots of extra curricular activities and give their students the edge on their state educated counter parts.