On 24-12-2009 23:43, Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> There are too many subtleties involved about the British social 
>> structure in this case, so I won't comment. Not on this specific 
>> situation nor in general as every country has it's own culture and 
>> history of education. We don't really have such private schools and 
>> those that may come closest have no impact on the social structure of 
>> the country, so I won't even comment on whether it is sensible or 
>> desirable in the Dutch situation.
> 
>   I don't even know if there are private schools in Finland. Even if there
> are, they aren't really part of the Finnish culture or society. It's kind
> of given that everybody goes to regular school.

Then you don't know what it is to live in a country where almost the 
entire elite is recruited from a few schools that are only open to the 
elite. I don't live in such a system either, hence my reluctance to 
interpret any comment from a British citizen about his own system as 
mainly jealousy.
Btw, you interpreted yourself a letter you read without a reference to 
the source. Without that nobody can judge if you correctly got the main 
point or that this is an inadvertent straw man argument.

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