Sunday, October 2, 2011

Removing Grammar from School = Crime - Norman Tebbit

In 1985 Norman Tebbit suggested in all seriousness that the abandonment of traditional grammar-teaching in schools had contributed to the breakdown of law and order.

"If you allow standards to slip to the stage where good English is no better than bad English, [it] tends to cause people to have no standards at all, and once you lose standards there's no imperative to stay out of crime."

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