Schooling in the WW

[lilymaid_9]

No: HPFGUIDX 78118

Something that has mystified me since I began reading Harry Potter is 
the education of both muggle-born and wizard-raised witches and 
wizards.  There is the long-running question about wizarding primary 
schools, but my question is to do with the level of other education 
of the children of the WW.
At 11 years of age, young wizards and witches start at Hogwarts.  
>From this time on, they are expected to write essays, read textbooks, 
measure potions ingredients and so on.  How do they manage to improve 
their, for example, language skills, to compose essays of ever-
increasing difficulty without further English education?  The same 
goes for Mathematics and other core subjects.
I can see that the action of writing the essays would improve the 
skills of the children but I cannot see most writing a 7th year 
History of Magic composition with eleven year old literacy 
capabilities.

Any thoughts?

Fiona, a long-time lurker