Stone's throw across the river: Education and attitude in England as compared with United States?

Question

Article attached:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/world/europe/10britain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=world

What is your opinion on the way education and attitudes are shifting towards especially on the lower quartile of society ?

ABRIDGED

Taylo.. – Keep youth in education until eighteen in the UK: Age and wisdom hopefully provides insight on the significance of further education; higher education can only be a good thing.

Aled .. – Keeping kids in school until eighteen may stop kids from maturing; some of my friends can be disruptive to the point of extinguishing the whole idea of college,

Flyin.. – Keep youth in education until eighteen: Youth usually respond well to set daily routines; provides a safety net where insufficient opportunities exist; provides direction in an increasingly aging population with up and coming young people; superiors provide less responsibility to individuals on account of age; and the emergence of an M society with a diminishing middle class whittled down by economic changes, international economic and political issues, may impress upon the need to secure better positions in society.

Answer 1

In real life of course superiors would provide less responsibility to individuals whom they believe lack gravitas on account of age. A well argued proposal is to keep people in education until 18, young people will usually respond well to rituals and set daily routines, a society that does not create sufficient opportunities for workers aged 16-18 is compensating for the gap by making financial outlays to cover for people's continued learning and schooling up to the age of 18. With an increasingly aging population plus a large segment of young people growing up it makes sense to organise with the aim of providing some sort of order via education. The emergence of an M society in which the middle class get extinguished in the process of joining either the upper or lower classes due to economic changes that are enhanced by international economic and political issues means that some individuals will see the logic of continuing into 16 plus education in order to secure a better position for themselves once it is time to enter into society.

Answer 2

I think the idea of keeping education mandatory until the age of 18 in the uk is a good idea. I know a lot of kids would disagree but to leave school at 16 is to young.
Kids would have to receive higher education to a degree which can only be a good thing. The poor standards of education of todays school leavers is terrible. If they were there 'til 18 they being that bit older and wiser would hopefully learn more and realise the importance of further education.

Answer 3

i think it would be rediculous to keep kids in school 'till 18. I myself am in uni now, but i could not imagine some of my friends who left at 16 still being in school up untill last year!- they were so disruptive... would destroy the whole idea of college, and would stop kids from maturing!