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This odious doctrine of apartheid at 11-plus. ... We reject it because as a nation we cannot afford artificially to segregate three-quarters of our children, and virtually cut them off from the normal chance of higher education.

— Harold Wilson Leader of the Opposition (1963)

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

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