Educating Children

We worry far too much about school and education in general.

I was one of a team who created a high-tech company that was sold for a large amount of money in 1984 to Lockheed, the big American aerospace firm.

Of the top seven or so thinkers in the company, only two or three had University degrees and a couple had left school at sixteen. Intelligence is in the genes and if you have it, then you will come through no matter what.

As an illustration of this, our middle son left school with not a single GCSE. Twenty years later, he's one of the top defence solicitors in the country, handling high-profile cases.