I went to a

I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what’s happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they’re becoming more and more preparatory because that’s what people will really pay the money for private … Read more

If today you can

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. … Read more

I was brought up

I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class – lower-middle class actually – after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to … Read more