"In the 1960s and '70s, the focus had been on the relationship between the teacher and the pupil, but that the really crucial relationship was between the teacher and his subject. That relationship created a vortex into which the student was drawn. This observation suggests a reason why teaching qualifications, length of experience, advanced degrees, and even class size may be of less consequence than presently supposed."
"Schools often talk about the success they have enjoyed in helping place students in colleges and universities, but few publicly subdivide their results to identify the numbers who have gone to leading universities6 and those who have gone elsewhere."
"How can teachers who have not themselves attended top-flight universities either know what their standards are, or adequately prepare students for them?"
"To what extent are schools pushing for excellence?"
"The focus on the less able and the underprivileged has, to too great an extent, overshadowed the attention that students at the top end of the scale deserve to realize their full potential. It has been easier for the private sector to maintain a sharper focus on higher achievers, but able children at public schools deserve the same academic opportunities, if they are capable of the achievement."
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