How I overcame the 'horrors' of a state-school education

Much is said about the differences between state and private school education, and a new initiative to help enhance ‘character’ in schools seems destined to further emphasise this division. But is a private education really a superior one? Or are the benefits all to do with a more privileged position?I’ve probably told the following anecdote before, but it’s relevant, so here it is again.In the oversubscribed and underfunded state school I eventually graduated from, we once had an assemb