British school that won’t settle for second best

Michaela is a private school in northwest London. It has an almost militaristic style of teaching, but teach they do. 

For this is a happy school. At lunch, 14-year-olds talked enthusiastically about reading Oliver Twist. “What I love here is the quiet,” said one. “At home there’s so much noise I have to go to the public library to do my homework, but here I can actually concentrate.”

 

Michaela acts as a surrogate family for children who don’t have those advantages. The children are not only given the intellectual tools to fulfil their potential. They are also loved, taught to love other people and shown how to love their country.

The British education system seems to be about engineering attitudes to conform to prevailing (left-wing) social orthodoxies. Michaela is bringing back education in the true sense of the word, where children love learning and learn they do.

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