The front page of The Guardian online today runs a story about Chris Parry, the chief executive of the Independent Schools Council next to a series of articles about animal research and in particular the use of monkeys and apes in experiments aiming at understanding the basic neural architecture of primates (including human) so that treatments for brain diseases even become a possibility.
On the one hand when asked if he thought that some children in state schools were unteachable Chris Parry replied, “Yeah, I think there are contexts within which …