This chapter excerpt from The Green and Pleasant Land captures the moment Harry Leslie Smith left school at fourteen—not by choice but by design, because in 1937 the system was rigged to confine working-class youth to lives of manual labour and limited horizons.
This is so true, and the attitude of the Ruling Class basically hasn't changed, hence 14 years of chronic underfunding of state schools under the Tories. Trump, as is his way, said the quiet part out loud: "I love the poorly educated".
This is so true, and the attitude of the Ruling Class basically hasn't changed, hence 14 years of chronic underfunding of state schools under the Tories. Trump, as is his way, said the quiet part out loud: "I love the poorly educated".
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A particularly gripping chapter, and searing description of life without even the mythology of hope.