Our thanks to Jeff for this. I’m 68. When I was at school most of the teachers were men and there was no need for teaching assistants. Now most teachers are women and they need assistants, and of course nearly all teaching assistants are women. Two women today deliver poorer education than one man did half a century ago.

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