In my darkest moments I would gaze at the new pupils lining up for their first day of big school, see into their futures, and weep. Doom ruled. Class was fate. Social determinism was all. However well the pupils did the ruling classes ruled.
Well, that now seems even more to be the case.
Education has not improved social mobility since the Second World War – so says Dr John Goldthorpe, an emeritus fellow at Oxford, at a recent lecture. All reform, all governments, all the trillion initiatives, haven’t shifted a single thing. Not a jot.
Well that’s that then.
I’ve been wasting my time for 40 years.
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