Reply #11: All shall have prizes

[fedsron2us]

It is the Alice in Wonderland world of British education. I don't know why they don't just abolish examinations, give everyone a nice gold medal at the end of their schooldays and save us all from the annual boredom festival that surrounds the publication of the A level results. Personally, I do not know whether the current generation of students are more stupid or brighter than those of 10, 20 or 30 years ago. You almost certainly will not find out from the bits of paper dished out by academia. I suspect that this has always been the case. Looking back over the centuries I am always amazed that at the number of the significant achievements in arts and science which were produced by people who were deemed failures by their schools or universities. Its almost as though formal education is designed to snuff out innovation and original thought.