The first three young men, top students at one of England's top public schools, evince little interest in the world affairs convulsing campuses around the world; but the three university men raise the energy level with their crackling disagreements about whether there can ever be equality in England without a radical revamping of the school system. NS: "... this is why it is crucial that you should not segregate children in education at an early age, or indeed at any age, because you are thereby saying,... If you pass this exam [at age eleven], you are going to get a good education, and if you fail it, you are going to get a bad one." RE: "... If you happen to be born in a neighborhood comprehensive which is a bad school, you have no opportunity whatsoever under Mr. Standlen's system; under the old English system, if you had that spark of genius in you, you could rise."