Interesting news emerges from the crumbling Blair regime, of Downing Street’s education supremo, Andrew Adonis. Charged with the task of persuading Britain’s higher earning tax serfs to abandon the private education sector, to throw their children into the mind-numbing morass of the Guardian-reader dominated state “education” sector — I prefer the term “serf-provision” sector — it appears Mr Adonis is himself considering the hideous evils of going private.
In a plausibly deniable way, he’s thinking of sending his son to the fee-paying, and German government subsidised, Deutsche Schule. The words self-deluding and fraudster spring to mind. But coming from a government already boasting the services of Lord Falconer, the crony who failed to become a Labour MP because of his honest refusal to stop using private schools, and who reached the heady heights of ministerial office despite the wretched idleness of several hundred elected Labour backbenchers, it may instead reveal the often hidden mental pattern of the rest of our lords and masters.
For in their world, they are our noble shepherds, and we are their humble sheep. They lead and we follow. And do not the sheep need corrals, or comprehensives, to pen them in, to teach them how to eat grass, grow wool, and be sheared? And do not the leaders, and their offspring our future leaders, need the marble Platonic academy at the top of the hill, to teach them the ways of their glorious guardianship of our otherwise free-market wolf-infested lives? They deserve it, for all the christian sacrifices they’ve made, taking from our backs all of our painful burdens of choice and freedom, and bearing them on our behalf, as Jesus did with his cross. Does not the word “Adonis” itself mean “Lord”, in biblical Greek?
And what better an academy than a German-speaking school, to prepare the new aristocracy’s new baby aristocrats with a correct language specification for the century ahead, in an EU world based upon the magnificent Rhineland economic model? A private education subsidised by the taxpayers of Britain, who toil to pay your inflated wages, and the taxpayers of Germany, who your son will one day rule over as part of the expansive rentier establishment? Marvellous. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer hypocrite.
Reminds me of the situtation in Washington DC. Disctrict of Columbia is a non-state where the US Capital is at. It’s budget comes from Congress. During a hearing for possibility of school voucher (allows poor parents to send their kids to privte school), one of these poor children asked an opposing Democrat Senator Landreau of Lousiana where she send her children to school. Landreau mumbled off the name of the most expensive, exclusive private school in Virginia/Maryland/DC region. But that won’t help this poor parent, since the voucher amount won’t even began to cover the tuition of this expensive school.
The “serf-provision sector”
Marvellous!
Cydonia
Actually, he shouldn’t bother, since it’s the plebs who do better. This seems to support what many have always suspected, that independent schools simply coach rich idiots beyond their natural abilities, only for them to make idiots of themselves in the real world.
Remember Micheal Meacher, former environment minister and professional ludditte? 30-9-99 Meacher proposes second-home ban as rural people can’t afford homes. Well I guess he only meant other people.