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B.B.C. television interviewers seek out headmasters and teachers working in Britain's vast educational system to discuss the advantages or drawbacks of the various types of schools Passionate personal views are pro nounced in favour or against certain systems of teaching — be it for the public school with its small classes and extracurricular activities for the privileged or against the overcrowded impersonal stale schools, or about the eleven plus examination system. Many views are heard, main solutions offered, but at the end it is left to the viewer to form his own opinion on the pressing problems of public education.