Euro-Humanity on the Wane is a scathing indictment of what has happened to public education in the UK, and how it has underperformed private and "black market" private schools in India.

Quoting from Christopher Chantrill's excellent article: "Contrary to the received notion, it appears that the urban poor are not too poor, or too ignorant, or too feckless to send their children to school—or to pay for it.

And we are idly tossing into the air another very small idea, as inadvertently suggested by the documentary Up Series. What if children suckled at the teat of government schools generally grow up to be adult adolescents, don’t bother to marry, and don’t bother to have children?

They would be well on the way to the status of H.G. Wells’ Eloi in The Time Machine, 'humanity upon the wane,' shortly to fall into the clutches of the Muslim Morlocks. For when society sets itself 'steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword,' it has no need to develop 'intellectual versatility… the compensation for change, danger, and trouble,' until it is too late."

Read the whole thing.