
Civil and Uncivil Societies
The Reith Lectures
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Colin, Would We Have Got Where We Ended Up if We'd Goed to Air Academy?
I wonder, colin, would we have got where we ended up if we'd gone to air academy in its comprehensive heyday? I somehow doubt it. The reason that colin and i had successful academic careers was that our parents got us out of the failing state schools. And they were failing state schools an air in the ten seventies. Think about it before you before you start taking side swipes at a private education. Before you complacently tell yourself that everything is absolutely great about the state sector in scotland. There are kids out there who have not had the advantage of a decent education. We've got to do something now.
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