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There was a lone voice of perspective this week from Dr Stephen Spurr, head of Westminster, the "clever" school.
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Too clever for school.
"She was so clever at school.
"No, because I wasn't clever at school.
None of them was especially clever at school.
Which is a bozo answer" – and was curious and clever in school.
I was a judge for this year's Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, so until very recently I was reading essays written by clever high school students.
But it's easy to see how a clever high school student could come to the conclusion that as an education reformer, Mr. Bush was all talk.
At its worst, Scotland today produces artists who always seem to stay at the level of a clever art school student – they're still doing a degree show.
Here she was, a good girl, a nice girl, pretty to look at, obedient, kind, clever at school, and with beautiful hair — yet none of it was good enough.
Did we imagine it would still be like this at the top of politics when the country was being led by clever grammar school boys and girls a generation ago?
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