Parents and all right-minded people want the best for children, and one important aspect of considering what is best for them is contemplating their education. What is the process by which they become “educated”—what does having an “education” mean? It is not enough, I think, just to select the “best” school we intend to send them to; we have to think deeper than this because the “best” school is not necessarily best for your particular child. Indeed, we see this clearly when parents with more than one child make different decisions for each one. Furthermore, “best” can so often mean not very much. It may mean simply the most expensive or exclusive, if we go privately, or it may mean, if we go publicly, the most popular or most visibly branded school, with reputation hinging on, perhaps, just one sole factor such as examination results. The idea that just because …