Originally Posted by paralax:
“Katie is working class, she works! It is the non working class, those who choose not to work that should object to her views on the subject.”
You agree with her. I really can't. Her views are the ugly stuff of history. Social mobility is unacceptable, education only for the wealthy
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...kins-interview
Quote:
“f you managed to miss all of that, you would get an idea of her style from her reply when I ask if she'd call herself a snob. "Oh, definitely yeah, 100%. I think it's really important to be snobby. Do I think social mobility policy will ever work? Absolutely not. Is social class a much more efficient way of getting people to the top? Absolutely. Social class has worked for years. Born into the right family, go to the right schools, even if you're not super bright to start with, you'll turn out bright. You go to the right university, you get the right job, you have the right connections, you'll make it to the top. Job done, very efficient."
Efficient at what? "Efficient at getting smart, well-connected people to the top. It is efficient, because what public money was required to move those people to the top? None." That would depend on whether we want the best people at the top, surely, or just the cheapest way to get some people to fill up the top? "Oh, for goodness sake," she exclaims impatiently. "It's this whole state school thing: 'Oh, there are a couple of bright sparks, let's invest £50m trying to get the two or three that might achieve to the top.' Or, shall we take really clever people and not have to spend any money on them, and get them to the top because they're connected and went to brilliant schools and their families will support them and they're fantastic? So why bother with social mobility? Why does it matter? Why? Why? I don't understand the obsession with it."”
She reiterated those views on Question Time and to the Cambridge Union Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-HYrihBajU
Universities should be privatised and all but the best blown up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...me/8734458.stm