https://leftfootforward.org/2016/11/we-need-an-education-fit-for-this-century-thats-why-im-marching-against-fees/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:34:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2016/11/we-need-an-education-fit-for-this-century-thats-why-im-marching-against-fees/#comment-846110 Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:34:21 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=116660#comment-846110 If you are open to a new idea – if – then “We believe that education is transformative for the individual who receives it, and benefits the whole of society” has to be put under the spotlight.
Yup – it really is transformative! Young people are trammelled into a school which expects that they will, if at all possible, go into Uni and then get a nice job in a nice warm place, preferably with power and the ability to “change other people’s lives”
How many children have you got yourself? Have you been able to spend time making a nice home for yourself and your husband? What have you personally put into your local community? Local, not international, community? What is your own priority in life?
If you can honestly answer these questions, then I respect you: not many women can today. Thanks to their education. (PS I like education myself. I think real education is not the same as State and I think real education – teaching people, men and women, to think is vital.)

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2016/11/we-need-an-education-fit-for-this-century-thats-why-im-marching-against-fees/#comment-845785 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:57:44 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=116660#comment-845785 We need to cut the number of Universities back to a sustainable level. The expansion of the University sector back in the 1990s was a great mistake. We now have too many graduates chasing too few graduate jobs and having to compete with immigrants as well.

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