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There is no point sending your children to Eton because education is in your genes, says geneticist
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/02/no-point-sending-children-eton-education-genes-says-geneticist/amp/
Sending children to private schools like Eton is a waste of time according to a leading scientist
Sending children to private schools like Eton is a waste of time because academic success is written in the genes meaning youngsters would do just as well at the local comprehensive, a leading scientist has claimed.
Robert Plomin, Professor of Behavioural Genetic at King’s College London, said he and his team had spent decades trying to unpick how much of achievement in education was down to nature or nurture.
He concluded that 50 per cent of academic success is due to genes, but they are yet to discover what accounts for the other half. What they do now know, however, is it is not due to schooling or upbringing.
Studies have shown that adopted twins with the same genetics do just as well academically even if they have had vastly different education or parents.
Although selective schools like Eton achieve higher grades, it is the selection process itself which accounts for the difference, and that same cohort would achieve the same marks if sent to a state school, Prof Plomin argues.
Professor Robert Plomin. Speaking at The Hay Festival, he said: “Do differences in the quality of school make a difference in outcomes like GCSE scores or getting into universities?
“There’s a correlation there – kids who go to selective schools have a GCSE score that is one full grade higher than kids who go to comprehensive schools.
“But if you correct for what the schools selected on, there’s no difference in GCSE scores. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you select the very best kids academically, yes they go on and do well. But have you added value? The answer is no.
‘So why send your kids to Eton? Don’t. If all you’re doing it for is educational achievement. Schools matter, kids have got to learn all this stuff. But do they make a difference? The answer is no.”
Eton currently costs more than £40,000-a-year and 19 of Britain’s Prime Ministers were educated at the school.
Prof Plomin accepted that parents may want to send there children to fee-paying schools to mix with the ‘right sort of people’ but said they shouldn’t expect the institutions to improve their grades.
Private schools may also instil confidence, leadership skills or connections which improve job prospects in later life, he conceded. Although just seven per cent of children in Britain attended public school, over a third of MPs, half of medical consultants and two thirds of high court judges had a private education.
But he added: “Differences in GCSE results for selective and non selective schools are not an index for the quality of education the schools provide.
“Even though schools have little effect on individual differences in school achievement, some parents will still decide to pay huge amounts of money to send their children to private schools in order to give their children whatever alight advantage such schools provide.
“I hope it will help parents who cannot afford to pay for private schooling or move house to know that it doesn’t make much of a difference in children’s school achievement.”
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believe what you want to believe
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It does make me feel better - “I hope it will help parents who cannot afford to pay for private schooling or move house to know that it doesn’t make much of a difference in children’s school achievement.”
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人生都是几率事情，贵族，名人，穷人，大少数不比普通人更聪明。 普通人子女再致力也很难逾越阶级。 伊顿就是妥妥的阶层门坎。 贵族名人穷人的个别资质的孩子，上伊顿只不外是日常糊口的一部份。 和学习成就瓜葛不大
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能上伊顿的基本不需求找任务，成就高下也无所谓。由于他们家族的财产几辈子也花不完。
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龙哥说他EQ的事， 有多是事实， 得多人都是这样的， 在网上很 social 的， 但在理想糊口中多是彻底不异性格的人。
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