The Children Deserve Better.

I made a post recently about the government’s plans to force children into formal education earlier than they start at present. I bemoaned the fact that they seem intent upon denying childhood to our children.

Well, a survey was published today, in which 2,000 leading experts on education were agreed that the best preparation for formal education is the fostering of social skills, and that means play. They said that introducing children to formal education at too early an age is likely to impede their later development. The government, of course, being the real expert in such matters, disagrees.

We surely need no reminding that the combination of ignorance and arrogance is a most potent and potentially destructive force, yet remind us is precisely what the present crowd of cretinous clowns seem determined to do on an almost weekly basis.