Government's new, old-fashioned schools agenda

call the Prime Minister at the time of children is part of a broader yearn for a return to the past

David Cameron can avoid talking too openly about his Eton fraction wear, but if members want to avoid government conservatives conjure images of prefects blond cheeks, rough play rugby and chapel before breakfast does not seem to be very difficult to try.

In a speech this week Scottish voters before the local elections, the Prime Minister presented the ultimate goal of explicit policy model of what he calls the best "that independent schools had do for them. "

students, he said, must "stand up when the teacher enters the room." Then cataloged - in a paragraph without characteristic verb - other attributes all schools must acquire: "The stringent real discipline .... hard sports themes, where children can learn what it is to have success and failure "

administration, added, should "captain of your own ship."

Last year, Cameron has been accused of behaving like Flashman - School Days arrogant bastard Victorian School Thomas Hughes Tom Brown romp -. Ed Miliband questions from a disgruntled Prime Minister

This week, the Prime Minister, who has never fought excavation Flashman, could very well be the father of channeling Tom, Squire Brown, that "sincerely believed that the powers that have been ordered God and the unwavering loyalty and obedience were men's rights, the first. "

is far from the first time the coalition, especially the segment Tory, explicitly called for a return to what some consider the stiff back, "play the game" the core values of Victorian schools.

Education Secretary, Michael Gove, revealing the government's plans for schools in November 2010, said Britain could become a "nation aspiration" if schools were encouraged to reintroduce uniform - with traditional jackets and links rather shady, modish products - and the prefect and house systems most often parents pay for their children to participate in.

• not "no profession more noble, not necessary to use more admirable vocation" of education, said, former soldiers, sailors and airmen in particular be encouraged to enter the profession, adding: "If the order is maintained in the classroom, teachers can teach and children can not learn."

Gove, who, like 59% of the original coalition was educated in private (he was a child in an independent scholarship Aberdeen), has since promised to put a Bible in each school, and urged more "elitist" shamelessly institutions such as the University of Cambridge and the great public schools to help manage public schools. She also sang the praises of formal education in your typical anti-populist "We need to get some of that fervor Victorian public believes that more prey to a passion, a one-hour lecture from a gifted thinker which ranged over poetry and politics than by cheap sensation and easy pleasures. "

communities secretary, Eric Pickles, perhaps in the cabinet of the minority as a boy's grammar school in Yorkshire, but his shyness cheerful slogan - "Hello comrades" - This is just Hughes next novel. Pickles has strongly called for a return to a very special brand of old national tradition, which in its interpretation means "traditional British Christian culture."

"A handful of activists," said he wants to "ignore the traditions and heritage of the majority" - including the Christian worship in the meetings of the Council, the Union flag and probably British traditional collection bin every week.
Winterval , threatening to overthrow the secular celebration of Christmas in Britain, similar "should be in the dustbin of history," he said - ignoring the fact that even the Daily Mail admitted that the stories rename or replace Christmas Winterval were false.

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