violet I really think the idea that no one should dare to venture beyond a certain boundary is so petit bourgeois.
Heaven forefend that someone who wasn't top of the class should forge ahead.
Most jobs do not need those with astronomical intelligence. Often they need those that simply dare put themselves forward. Folk who dare fail.
Thus far independently educated pupils have done that in droves. But rather than deride them, I'd rather see pupils from less advantaged backgrounds do the same.
Why not?
I'm quite clever, but not the cleverest person I know by a long shot.
But I've always gone for it, never felt I should limit myself. No doubt you would view me as over reaching myself intellectually.
But I've only done what most independently educated pupils do.
Of course I could have turned my nose up at all those students at uni that I felt didn't quite cut it. I could have moaned about how those privately schooled weren't that bright.
Instead, I looked at them, planning their rosy futures and thought, I can do that. If they think they can do x,y or z, then so can I.