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  What an interesting thread, now I have had chance to catch up with it. I totally support the teaching of proper spelling and grammar and wish very much that those had not been undermined so badly by successive trends. One thing I would add is that education is about so much more than exams and pass marks and caning (I still bear the marks from the rosary crucifix wielded by the nuns....) but is about growing and developing as well. They are far from mutually exclusive, and in fact impact on each other so crucially that I am concerned to see so little being made of it - not on this thread in particular but buy "specialists" and "experts".
  
  Without doing the "in my day" thing too heavily, in my day (!) education was a drive towards understanding and knowing, a journey of discovery and a route towards invention and interpretation. That mindset drove me to learn Hebrew for no better reason than it was fun and interesting and enabled me to translate things that I thought bore greater scrutiny, it drove me to read endlessly and created in me a thirst for words and books that has lasted, it made me happy to find things out and develop discussions and arguments. All of which is why I despise Gove et all for messing about with tuition fees and degrading higher education for academics.

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