Quote from: Martin on January 01, 2012, 16:58:39

No, all my posts haven't been about this. Did they teach you to read at your school Andy?

Sorry Martin, you were clearly never taught about rhetorical questions at school, and that might explain, at least in part, why your children appear to have been taught better than you, giving you the impression that education as a whole is better now.   

You started by saying:

You seem to equate 'better education' with 'uplifting the less academic', but they are two completely different issues.

I responded that you had not got this from my posts. (for example it can't have escaped you that a significant number of my posts on this thread have been about schooling to maximise the potential of the exceptionally gifted, who are certainly not 'the less academically gifted').  Personally I think you had written your post above, with very little thought to its accuracy, in order to write a jibe rather than it being anything you truly believe.

That's probably why you want to insist that the following question was rhetorical  - you didn't want an answer because you wanted to be able to get away with mis-characterising someone else's argument without  comeback. Well sorry to burst your bubble Andy, you've been found out again.