On 17/01/2014 10:23 AM, scott wrote:
>>> Not if the separation was a totally different school rather than just
>>> different classes.
>>
>> Didn't the UK try that already? Didn't that lead to a generation of
>> people being labelled according to which type of school they got sent
>> to, rather than anything they actually achieved while there?
>
> And how is that any different than the labelling of people today based
> on which university they went to rather than what they actually
> achieved? And what is the problem with that (assuming they passed the
> course)?

I don't know, man. I thought a degree is pretty much a degree; nobody 
seems to care much where you got it. (Unless it was somewhere really 
famous like Oxford or Cambridge. But that's because almost nobody goes 
there...)

By the time you reach adulthood, you have presumably given up on calling 
people names because they're "teacher's pet". Question is, how do we get 
younger children to do that...

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