The University of the Bleedin’ Obvious – the Sutton Trust, this time – has, after the usual beady research, just dredged up another revelation.
Ready? Got a pencil?
“People from more advantaged backgrounds have significantly higher levels of extroversion and very substantially higher economic aspirations.”
Well, knock me down with a feather. The argument seems to go thus: posh people are often show-offs. Show-offs get big heads. Big heads are good for you. You get confidence. You aspire. You get rich. Rich is good. Rich and noisy is very good. Poor and quiet isn’t. Extroversion gets paid. Introversion doesn’t. Confidence, especially social confidence, is all. The privately educated have lots of it. It’s on the syllabus. State pupils tend to lack it. We must make sure they get it.
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