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The Independent School

The ideal of independence is freedom to be the best.

In order to have a goal of the best, it is essential to have an ideal school to which independence is aimed.

It is Man’s inability to find that ideal, which causes trouble.

An ideal school has never yet been discovered, but it could be, we now know enough about study, to work out what an ideal school will be.

The major difficulty with education is not knowing that study technology exists and in consequence having no guidelines leading us anywhere.

As a result we regard independence as almost entirely a matter of the right to chose how money is spent. But not only how it is spent, but how it is acquired.

A private school is a term we use to indicate that the client covers the cost. Or if not the client, some other source than the Government, central or local.

A State school is a designation applied when the school is funded by local and or central Government.

Whosoever provides the funding of schooling, likes to have control of money and how it is spent, with the result that an independent school is a misnomer. Because all schooling, in the absence of an ideal, to which it is committed, is dependent on finance and therefore cannot be independent.

At a higher level there cannot be an independent school, because every school is committed to being the best.

Therefore our prime objective is to thrash out what is the best, what is the ideal for which we must aim. The mere fact that the ideal has never been discovered, means that there are those who would oppose what is best.

Pseudo-science has come into existence in a very destructive attempt to regiment education and produce citizens subservient to the State.

With study held in such a diabolical straight jacket, talk of independence is pure spin.

With the introduction of high tech Study Technology, pseudo-science which is rife in the medical profession and is wrecking the National Health Survice, will be weeded out.

Totalitarianism will end and dominion by the State will be finished. The very best schooling will be available to our children.

We shall have a possibility of Freedom and true Democracy.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB