We have a long tradition of night school classes whereby the poorer working classes could access education after work.
Or at least we did.
Then we got Thatcher.
We also had a very strong tradition of industrial training for practical jobs like engineers etc. That was diluted to everyone going to University, not lots going to technical colleges.
We had, in fact probably still have, a Workers Education movement. I'll see if I can find a link...
http://www.wea.org.uk/about
Worker's Education associations also did a lot of very early work in social film documentary of working class life in the early 20th century.
Does the USA see education and higher income as moving you out of your 'roots'? Or do you simply have more money than your neighbours in the poor areas?
My impression is that the USA is more towards moving to the posh people's areas as quickly as possible. (Which is also true of a lot of areas of the UK - hence me pointing out that I grew up with a different structure to that than most people.)
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Or at least we did.
Then we got Thatcher.
We also had a very strong tradition of industrial training for practical jobs like engineers etc. That was diluted to everyone going to University, not lots going to technical colleges.
We had, in fact probably still have, a Workers Education movement. I'll see if I can find a link...
http://www.wea.org.uk/about
Worker's Education associations also did a lot of very early work in social film documentary of working class life in the early 20th century.
Does the USA see education and higher income as moving you out of your 'roots'? Or do you simply have more money than your neighbours in the poor areas?
My impression is that the USA is more towards moving to the posh people's areas as quickly as possible. (Which is also true of a lot of areas of the UK - hence me pointing out that I grew up with a different structure to that than most people.)