ABSTRACT
It is an amiable weakness on the part of the English people, and a vice of the Scots, to imagine that their educational system is second to none. Like cricket or golf, education is a game in which they feel they excel, and if they did not actually invent them they like to think that at least they know the rules better than most. There is precious little in the historical record to warrant this self-deception and nothing whatsoever to excuse it in the contemporary situation.
