Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 November 1964.
Is my right hon. Friend aware that those of us on this side of the House who attended State grammar schools, who worked in them for many years and who would like our children to go to them, do not accept that the application of the comprehensive principle, in different ways in different parts of the country, will destroy grammar school education but that it will provide it to a larger number of children over a wider ability range, as is already done in the comprehensive public schools?