This is a really important point. There is a huge cultural chauvinism at play when we assume that poor kids are only capable of interacting with the mundane and the commonplace. Our culture values classical music, for instance. We build huge temples to it and subsidise it with public funds. Yet how on Earth would a poor child access classical music via a pathway of relevance? TV ads perhaps? How silly and thin these ideologies are.
RT @gsoh31: Next for 'Tory'/ 'traitor' smear: remaining Shadow Cab non-Corbynites; then Cat Smith and Clive Lewis; then Diane Abbott; then… 13 hours ago
@GregHurstTimes I was watching Saturday Kitchen in a pub with the sound down recently. They kept saying you should ask your "bitch" for meat 13 hours ago
@JennBinis The difference is @doctorwhy wanted everyone to know the truth about learnig, you wanted to restrict who has access to it. 14 hours ago
@JennBinis She got a heads up. Just not the special type you think she should have got. 14 hours ago
This is a really important point. There is a huge cultural chauvinism at play when we assume that poor kids are only capable of interacting with the mundane and the commonplace. Our culture values classical music, for instance. We build huge temples to it and subsidise it with public funds. Yet how on Earth would a poor child access classical music via a pathway of relevance? TV ads perhaps? How silly and thin these ideologies are.