Despite failing the eleven plus examination he was educated at the local grammar school, thanks to a headmaster who thought Hoggart had talent and insisted the Local Education Authority (LEA) admit him to Cockburn High School.

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Anti-selection groups will argue that the eleven-plus leads to most children being labelled as failures at an early age, thereby permanently damaging their educational progress.

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Yet over the span of 40-plus years, those eleven words have achieved iconic stature in no small way because of the unassuming manner in which they were uttered.

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