The Liberal Democrat leader also contradicted IFS claims that the spending review would see cuts in spending in classrooms by insisting the coalition had provided a cash increase per pupil for every schoolchild, and had added on top a pupil premium for deprived children worth £2.5bn.
A version of the following correction is due to appear in the Guardian on 25 October 2010: The article below says that the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, was "insisting the coalition had provided a cash increase per pupil for every schoolchild, and had added on top a pupil premium".
In last month's state-of-the-nation debate, he plucked many rabbits from the hat: a laptop for every schoolchild, €2,000 ($2,800) for new-car buyers, tax breaks for small businesses who held on to employees.
Barring the odd sulky schoolchild forced there for an assignment, everybody is there by choice and has a shared interest.
Pythagoras of Samos was the man who, as every schoolchild knows – and for once that cliché must be appropriate – named the theorem that in every right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse must equal the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
A Channel 4 documentary on Sunday will claim that analysis of the bodies and of wills registered in London at the time has cast doubt on "facts" that every schoolchild has learned for decades: that the epidemic was caused by a highly contagious strain spread by the fleas on rats.
Each schoolchild was observed for 3 5 days, from the beginning of a school day at 7 AM and followed during the whole day until evening at their homes, that is, 8 PM.
Each schoolchild was observed for 5 days from the beginning of the school day at 7 AM and followed during the whole day until 8 PM at their homes.
Almost every schoolchild of the 1960s was brought up on that speech, with its key invocation, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
And those glasses I mentioned for a schoolchild?
