There are many issues involved in this educational debate. The most useful way to consider preferences for your child's education is to think about the processes of selecting a school. Education is not as simple as public or private being better than one or the other. Class size, quality of the teacher, options within the learning environment, the philosophy of the school, the nature of the child and the values of the family, are all individual components. Equal amounts of studies can be found that indicate one type of school is better than another and I advise parents to consider their child and the family values first.