I saw this....

[johnny9fingers]

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n10/howard-hotson/dont-look-to-the-ivy-league 

And thought that it could do with a bigger audience.

Folk in the UK's educational establishments should take note in the coming debate.

In the meantime....the son and heir is quite charming and very bonny. Both Madame and I are in love with him. So tired, however. :)

Comments

[vlion.livejournal.com]

Please don't look to the US for general educational ideas, save as a caution. Funding is misallocated, the people involved are mismanaged, the structure is flawed, the wrong goals are set, illogical strategy is endemic, and perverse incentives utterly riddle the system, from the earliest childhood through to the top of the universities.

Our top schools are truly top of the line, and perhaps their excellence is only due to their people and culture, not to their structure.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I bet he's laughing all the time too!