So, please explain how the % of the population going to university has increased from <10% to ~50% in one generation if the "elites"' master plan is to keep the "proles" uneducated.
I think even the most ardent of Royalist would concede that Charles didn't get into Cambridge on academic merit. Surely the fact that William went to St Andrews and Harry didn't go at all is a step in the direction of meritocracy being applied to the Royals, which has to be a good thing (even...
Simply because of the stats that have been quoted in this thread. I'm not making a political point, just a statistical one; though perhaps it could have been better phrased.
EDIT: I've edited my first sentence to more accurately reflect what I intended to say.
If you accept that private schools do, for whatever reason, offer an education that is more likely to produce adults who are employed in the upper echelons of the professions, academia, politics, diplomacy et al (note, I didn't say "offer a 'better' education"), and you also accept that dumbing...