Educating Hurricane Emma
Sir: Auberon Waugh. in his very lively article about education, seemed to me to miss the main point for private education—that its content as well as its form is independent of the state.
The Western world has been going through a liberal period and state education has, on the whole, been fairly though not entirely non- propagandist. There is no reason to suppose this will always be the case. Nor is there any reason why one should agree that the sum total of what is termed education is necessarily the right mixture.
Private education means that the citizen can choose what his children can be taught; this may -be even more important than how and with whom, even though one should not underrate the importance of allowing people to be socially divisive if they so wish.
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