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  The bit I approve of is 7 - most laudable.
  
  As for the rest - 8 is perhaps a clue here as to their results. That is a social matter, not one of any particular education system.
  
  2 - I have met many superb teachers who do not have a masters degree. Too many people place too much emphasis on paper qualifications rather than character in this country.
  
  3 - It was streaming and Grammars that help social mobility in this country. Educational decline and comprehensives went hand in hand.
  
  4 - It is a matter of freedom. Nothing wrong with private education whether the expensive kind of the more focussed and affordable type that many people can access, additional tutoring etc.
  
  6 - I approve of a well-educated whole population but we do need elites in all walks of life. There must be encouragement, incentives and aspiration to build elites whether in business, sport, science, engineering etc.
  
  As for foreign languages. I am all for it but not necessarily as a priority over a basic sound education in the three R's.

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