And just whose fault is it?

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery." Plato

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."
Woody Allen

"The maxim about children being seen and not heard has vanished forever......"; so writes Michael Simkins in today's Sunday Telegraph, lamenting on the precociousness of children today. At whose door can be laid the blame for this? Well, lets see - and in no particular order:

The leftie-do-good brigade; the politically-correct brigade; the social-engineering brigade amongst our politcal elite; the human rights brigade; the dumbing-down of our education system brigade; the everyone-must-have-prizes brigade; the health 'n safety brigade; the lowering of teaching standards and teachers brigade; the removal of corporal punishment brigade; the parents who are, themselves, still children brigade; the thou-shalt-not-smack-the-little-brat brigade; the removal of - and thereby the fear of - the village bobby brigade; and lastly, the its-not-my-fault-I'm-just-a-parent brigade.

Just thinking..................