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  I think Astor, as an example, provides an excellent academic education as well as less academic teaching to all pupils who have the motivation, interest and home support to benefit from it. While the Grammar schools are more specialised in academic subjects they too do not ignore the practical side. Selection, properly managed, does not mean Astor children have to be in any way second rate academically to Grammar children, it does not make them failures and Grammar children successes - far from it. I speak as the father of two boys who have been to the Grammar and another who we chose to send to Astor...
  
  That is the benefit of selection, choice. The usual attack on selection, from the left, is to claim that it discriminates against those who do not pass to get into Grammar making them feel failures and giving them a second rate education. That is frankly absurd, expresed by those who are academic snobs who themselve think that non-academic education is second class. Its an expression too of their own inadequacies and its usually from those who are against competition in schools full stop (including competitive school sports days).

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