The op-ed editors would never accept an article arguing, say, for the return of high school home-economics courses so that girls would learn to cook.

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You remember that old home-economics class they used to teach in high school.

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Throughout his life, from a poor home in Paris through night-school classes in economics to his pre-Brussels spell as France's minister of finance, he has been a pragmatist who has got things done.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

It rents fields nearby for football and basketball, and, like other schools in the chain, sends pupils away to one of two specially built facilities for a week each term for home economics, woodwork and art, rather than providing costly, little-used facilities in the school.

ECONOMIST: Private education