19 December

Every time we tell people that their study at school doesn’t really matter in the longer term, we undermine education just that little bit more. Nothing really matters in the longer term, taken in isolation. In the longer term we’re all dead, as Keynes said. I’m sorry, school does bloody well matter, and doing well at school matters. Why do we reward achievement in every other area of life, but bend over backwards to contextualise away the achievement of people who excel in their education?