Many commentators have argued that the recent grading controversy indicates just how important public examinations are. Up to a point, Lord Copper.
Romans did jobs, not ‘education’. Most who went to school (there was no state provision) probably learnt not much more than the basic three Rs (peasant families — the majority of the population — needed their children to work the land).
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