What I actually said was that it was wilfully ignorant for parents to remove children from school and lambast the entire education system just because they "didn't like school". Such educationally-deprived children, given the self-will and determination, could presumably seek out appropriate remedial help and GCSE tuition themselves later. That's as long as they are not imbued with inherited anti-intellectualism wrapped up in sparkly, rainbow-coloured froth.

Formal education is, as has been pointed out time after time, a discipline in learning how to use the brain, how to think and assess the scholarship of others and thus formulate one's own. As with any other field of learning, this applies equally to music which, actually, does NOT fall from the skies for "yokels" to pick up and not question its origins. How patronising. And far from the truth.