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Eton’s Big Cheese On Boys’ Education Woes

At last someone high up on the education food chain has decided to speak out about the way boys get screwed over by the modern education system.

Eton headmaster Tony Little has told the Telegraph that boys are doing badly in school because the system is geared towards meeting the needs of girls, and that  methods which help girls do not do so for boys.

Little also stated that boys need different teaching methods in order to fulfill their potential,  pointed out that despite being less likely to burst into tears, boys are actually more emotional than girls,  and that boys need more physical activity mixed in with their learning.  To those who have already looked into these matters none of this is news, but its nice to see these facts being stated in the mainstream media, especially  by someone with so much clout.

What I did find to be new was the claim that research shows that the arts, despite being inexplicably seen as rather girly subjects, are more likely to “flourish” in a boys’ school. Personally this doesn’t amaze me at all, after all most of the artists out there are straight men, and most of those have been artistic since childhood – not many female Mozarts or Da Vincis out there. Less surprisingly the research also shows that boys’ schools are also better at fostering technology and design.

If these findings are indeed true, it could be argued that those in power don’t even need to care about boys to make single sex schooling the norm, they just need to care about society overall, but of course they don’t. The feminists are just hell bent on getting (left wing, white, middle-class ) women as much power as they can, while their partners in crime in the upper classes are looking forward to the day when less males running the middle and working classes will mean less resistance to the status quo.

And sometimes of course, feminism meets the upper class in the very same woman –Harriet Harman’s dad was a Harley Street doctor, her mother a solicitor and the hare-brain herself went to a very exclusive private girls school which costs about 20 thousand pounds (32 thousand US, 35 thousand Aus)  per year to attend.

Article here.

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