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All Must Have Prizes is a 1996 book by the author and journalist Melanie Phillips that criticises recent historical trends in educational reform in the United Kingdom, characterised by a departure away from literacy- and knowledge-based learning in early childhood education through to university education, as the principles of teaching a body of rules and selection in schools have in Phillips's opinion become taboo issues. Phillips also asserts that relationships between parent and child and teacher and pupil have been undermined, to the particular detriment of the children, and contends that all these developments have resulted in an increase in illiteracy, falling educational standards and a demoralised teaching profession.

The book was described in The Guardian as "a furious polemic" and criticised and

Critical reception
The book was criticised in The Independent for being