I’ve been fortunate to experience a comprehensive school (for GCSEs) and a private school (for a levels) in the same city. Personally, I think we can get a bit caught up talking about comprehensive school resources. I think the issue is much deeper than that...

One thing that struck me when I joined the private school was that the students seemed to be more disciplined and ambitious than where I previously went. Students seemed like that were willing to learn and tended to take education seriously...

Instead of getting into a discussion about abolishing private schools we should look about how we can reform are state schools and learn from the private ones. One area I think is key is disipline and teaching students to be to take responsibility for themselves...

Of course not all state schools are the same. Some are better than some private but many unfortunately are not. If there’s anything I think we should be more open to is serious education reform. Instead of having a huge government monopoly over education we should...

Think about introducing competition and innovation in our schools. Decentralise education and give parents a variation of schools which they can choose their children to go to: school choice...

One distinct difference I saw between the two schools was that my comprehensive had many fights weekly. And whilst I was at the private there were no proper fights when I was there for the 2 years. Of course getting a sound education is complicated and...

There are many factors involved but we shouldn’t just say we should abolish private schools. That would not solve our problems in the state schools, it’ll only add to them. Instead we should be thinking how to we can learn elements from the private and apply them to comprehensive

My waffling is over, I’m off to sleep now.