I like inventing aphorisms but I can rarely produce a good and original one:
Education is always painful;
Pain is always educational.
Radical egalitarians want to make everyone equal--
By making everyone equally poor.
I can try some others if you like.
--Boris
As to author of this piece, he is sadly mistaken. MOST Americans have an impression of the British based on their TV exports. From his intellectual vacuity, he reminds me of this character...