Nail on head Fiona! "Confidence" or you can call it "an ability to kick ar$e when necessary". Onyx and Divvy illustrate this well! Infact so many privately educated women i know have this enviable trait that timid ole me can only dream of! Thankfully my 15yo DD has received this too from her primary and secondary private education. I'm not saying that publicly educated people never have this... but just from personal experience it's not as common. And it's this trait that DH needed in his graduate assistant banker: the ability to hold ground if an arrogant CEO is trying to Lord it over them! From his experience the private kids can handle themselves pretty well... and not lose the client in the process!
I don't want to sound too "pro" private system though. Because just like Fiona I REALLY want to support the public system... I care about education... I aim to be a teacher... it's just that especially here in Victoria the public system (the most under-funded in Australia) is not a system I particularly admire compared to what I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford in the private system.
Last edited by Bathsheba; November 24th, 2010 at 02:14 PM.
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