I agree with some of what the hon. Gentleman says. There is a wide spectrum of opinion among those interested in education—from right to left and from traditional to progressive—that regulation should not be too prescriptive and that there should not be too much interference in what happens in the classroom. Nevertheless, the National Curriculum Council and the inspectorate made individual reports to me at the same time saying that they felt that a number of practices that had largely been dropped in primary schools in the 1960s and early 1970s, such as setting and whole-class teaching, were practices from which children should benefit. It was important to draw the conclusions of those two bodies to teachers' attention.