It’s once again incredible to see you write a piece as though you are a mere dispassionate observer, rather than someone who supported 14 years of a government that did nothing but make these problems worse and worse.
I mean, you could just say “sorry for my part in this shitshow”, couldn’t you?
Thanks for a highly informative piece. The framing of human education as a purely transactional material good is simply wrong. Within this limited neo liberal ideology the final destination must be the end of all cultural creation to be replaced by numbers based automata. The end of humanitarian education and the embracing of a society built around abstract transactionalism. We are already too far down this dystopian rabbit hole with a Single Tranferable Political Party of Gradgrinds restructuring society. It is no wonder so many are choosing to take their kids out of school. As true intelligence is increasingly being pathologised as neurodivergent by systemic homogeneity.
What is wrong with our universities? I'd say they are no longer about finding truth but about denying it with a left-wing sheep dip. Or that the business model relies on charging foreign students premium rates to provide an external benefit i.e. immigration to the U.K. The fact that our own kids get a bad deal whenever they sign up to something with no vocational use is a concern, but a lesser one. If these institutions fail, we should let them - and rejoice. It's a shame though that one of the best minds in the Parliamentary Party hasn't seen that.
It’s once again incredible to see you write a piece as though you are a mere dispassionate observer, rather than someone who supported 14 years of a government that did nothing but make these problems worse and worse.
I mean, you could just say “sorry for my part in this shitshow”, couldn’t you?
Thanks for a highly informative piece. The framing of human education as a purely transactional material good is simply wrong. Within this limited neo liberal ideology the final destination must be the end of all cultural creation to be replaced by numbers based automata. The end of humanitarian education and the embracing of a society built around abstract transactionalism. We are already too far down this dystopian rabbit hole with a Single Tranferable Political Party of Gradgrinds restructuring society. It is no wonder so many are choosing to take their kids out of school. As true intelligence is increasingly being pathologised as neurodivergent by systemic homogeneity.
What is wrong with our universities? I'd say they are no longer about finding truth but about denying it with a left-wing sheep dip. Or that the business model relies on charging foreign students premium rates to provide an external benefit i.e. immigration to the U.K. The fact that our own kids get a bad deal whenever they sign up to something with no vocational use is a concern, but a lesser one. If these institutions fail, we should let them - and rejoice. It's a shame though that one of the best minds in the Parliamentary Party hasn't seen that.
There seems a long standing trope that it was a shock for a working class boy to go to university, but has it ever been true?
Even in the 1300s or 1500s it was a regular occurrence for boys from lower class backgrounds to go to Oxbridge via grammar schools and monasteries.