Tony Blair, the New Labour party PM for many years, shares in his memoir a controversial perspective that an education should fit the family and not politics.
"Schools were a constant object of controversy in those early days as I tried to wean the party off its old prejudices (though I think they made have called them beliefs). When I had chosen to send my own children to the Oratory - a Catholic state school that had been funded by the government - it was a difficult moment. Alastair and I had a real set-to over it cover since he was a campaigner for comprehensive schools and really disapproved. (Comprehensive schools are state-funded and where children all backgrounds and abilities are educated in a single school.) But I was determined that I could not let the kids down. Their education was important. To send them to a bad or average state school, when ... we could have sent them to a good [Catholic] one, would be really quite wickedly irresponsible."
Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life (2010)
