The Blair government of 1997-2010 made education, education and education the top three priorities for a country leaping into the new millennium. To become a teacher in the late 1990s had a certain rock star status to it. The fact that our rock stars at the time were Damon Albarn, Brett Anderson and Jarvis Cocker might  cause us to miss the point, that teachers, for a time, became people to admire. Bernard Shaw’s famous quotation “Those who can, do.  Those who can’t, teach” was manipulated for  a clever marketing strategy that simply said: “Those who can, teach” – and many young  graduates who would not previously have considered teaching flocked into education.