| Although private schools give you a better chance at getting into University (i'm speaking from a UK perspective here), people from state schools who get to University tend to do better there, because they have become more self reliant, more socialised and don't want to live the lifestyle of their parents.
Its the getting to University from a state school thats the hard bit.
And I will admit I learnt a lot of things at my state school I wouldn't have at a private, independant or 'public' school (public school is diff in UK to state schools, they are places like Eton for princes and politicians children).
I learnt how lockpick most cars with coat hangers at 8, how to drive at 10, how to fight at about 7, how to take people out in one punch, how to build and throw homemade explosives...all good. Not to mention how to deal with people in authority so I don't ever have a detention. I only failed three times, and they all got me on report, so i guess they were unavoidable. But I did get away with humiliating a teacher in front of thirty kids (she was an idiot, called us idiots, so i got up and tore her apart. She took it to head of discipline, and he agreed that she was wrong to call us idiots, and thus I got the entire group out of detention)
But all this means nothing when coming to an employer. So your from where? Eton? Oh I came from there too old boy! .....
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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