| "Give me the child until he is seven, and I will | | | | early rather than later. Some parents seem to |
| show you the man," the Jesuits used to say. | | | | think that they should keep their finance until close |
| If you subscribe to the view that humans can be | | | | to teenage exam times, but by then it is often |
| persuaded, conditioned or just trained from an | | | | far too late, when the die is already cast. |
| early age to see the world in a certain way, then | | | | With astonishing statistics recently announced the |
| one can certainly understand the Jesuit philosophy. | | | | need for additional help may well be required. |
| Many anxious parents, distressed with the state | | | | 800,000 adults, of whom 500,000 are in work, |
| schooling system, wonder when they are best to | | | | have 'significant literacy problems' and that 'It's a |
| start having their children tutored. | | | | very worrying number.' Yet excellence in |
| Nurturing and Developing Every Child's Potential | | | | education is about more than grades. |
| Starting tutoring at a young age, we can inculcate | | | | The power of one-to-one tuition in encouraging |
| a number of core values and a certain rigour | | | | children and increasing confidence, helping children |
| which is never lost. Parents, and especially | | | | feel motivated to learn and develop a passion for |
| grandparents, ask about timing for legacies which | | | | study. |
| they intend for their loved ones, and if they wish | | | | With the state system failing, could the way |
| to invest in their education, then it is best done | | | | forward be through the old Jesuit way? |