
A Revolution Betrayed
How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System
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Peter Hitchens
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Peter Hitchens
About this listen
Bloomsbury presents A Revolution Betrayed written and read by Peter Hitchens.
There are few subjects these days that cause parents more stress than the education of their children.
In his new book, Peter Hitchens describes the misjudgements made by politicians over the years that have led to the increase of class distinction and privilege in our education system. This is of course the opposite of what was intended, especially by former Minister of Education Shirley Williams and Margaret Thatcher, her successor in that role, who closed down many more Grammar Schools than Williams.
Given that the cost of private secondary education is now in the region of £50,000 a year and the cream of Comprehensive Schools are now oversubscribed (William Ellis, Camden School for Girls, The Oratory, Cardinal Vaughan), parents are spending thousands on private tutoring and fee-paying prep schools in order to get their children into these academically excellent schools. Meanwhile hypocritical Labour politicians like Diane Abbott send their children to expensive private day schools. So, what alternatives – if any – are there?
Peter Hitchens argues that in trying to bring about an educational system which is egalitarian, the politicians have created a system which is the exact opposite. And what’s more, it is a system riddled with anomalies – Sixth Form Colleges select pupils on ability at the age of 15, which rules out any child who does not have major educational backing from home (heavy involvement by working parents or private tutors, for example) and academies also are selective, though they pretend not to be.
This is an in-depth look at the British education system and what will happen if things don’t change radically.
Mr Hitchens performs the audio book, which is always excellent.
Excellently researched and presented
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The wrecking of grammar schools & an excellent education system was socialism in action, which Tories went along with.
Excellent argument, which persuaded me
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Every teacher must read this
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Thomas Sowell calls this the “vision of the anointed” whereby an often perfectly functioning system is viewed, ideologically, as an issue that requires ‘fixing’.
The supposed fix then makes things much worse than they otherwise would have been if left alone.
But at no cost whatsoever to the anointed who have often based entire careers on turning ideology into reality and who then claim that things would have been much worse if they had not acted.
Hitchens is a lone voice on this and many other subjects, and he knows it. Yet he put this work out anyway. I for one applaud him for that.
At last, the truth.
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Interesting and thought provoking
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Well reasoned and thoroughly researched.
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This isn’t Peter Hitchens’ fault as the narrator, I’ve listened to audiobooks of his with perfect recording quality and I usually like it when the audiobook is in the voice of the author.
Really good book, poor audio quality
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Read only if you have a very strong interest in both Peter Hitchens and British education.
Unfortunately Hitchens' worst book
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How different things could have been.
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