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Wednesday 16 December 2009

Is having gone to Eton such a bad thing?

It's odd how old-Etonian is thrown around as an insult. Gordon Brown, Ed Balls and mush of the Labour party seem to think that just by pointing out that David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Zac Goldsmith went to Eton that they have destroyed their credibility and voter appeal.

However, does anyone disagree that that Eton provides a seriously good standard of education, maybe some of the finest education that money can buy? If an Eton education is so good then is the argument being put forward not really that old-Etonians are too well educated to be Prime Minister? Would the UK rather be governed by well educated politicians or those who admit that they are not very good at mathematics?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Labour politicians attack the background of others but click on the link to see the Roots of New Labour.

Anonymous said...

It's typical left-wing doublethink:

1. It's unfair that only the wealthy can get education of the quality Eton offers

2. Anyone who went to Eton is an idiot who is unprepared for life in the modern world and unfit to govern

An accusation I recently heard levelled at Etonians and the like was that they were "overeducated". What could that possibly mean?