Down with skool (especially Eton)

Public schools have come under fire from an unlikely duo.

It's been a bad week for public schools. First, Michael Gove told the FT's George Parker that it was "ridiculous" that four members of David Cameron's inner circle went to Eton, while more than half of the Cabinet are privately educated. "I don't know where you can find a similar situation in any other developed country."

Gove, says Parker, is "burning with indignation" that money can still buy the education that opens doors to top jobs, while the state school system allows talent to go to waste.The adopted son of an Aberdeen fishmonger, he is on a "mission" to change this. And while Cameron says his role model is the patrician Harold Macmillan, Gove's office is lined with very different political heroes.

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