I just read an excellent post by the Traditional Teacher entitled ‘Why We Don’t Need Grammar Schools’ which challenges the notion that I have encountered many times – namely that a rigorous academic education is based on middle class values foisted onto poor unsuspecting members of the working/underclass.
It is a peculiarly ‘Western’ concept based on the way that education has gone from the province of the elite to the masses. However, in most countries in the world this notion of class and education is not tied together in quite the same way.
Both my parents came from good agrarian stock – small villages in India – and the idea of education being a good in itself and to be valued came way before schools did to these areas.
Their own views on education were formed by their experiences both at the time and later on. As children who had left…
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