Recent content by sjc1017

The UK has gone through the same. In the 50s, 60s and seventies people just wanted to leave school as early as possible and get a job and few would claim but then in the late seventies jobs started to become scarce and people started to change. We moved towards societies in which large scale...

Ask yourself, will the credentials of those who learn from bedrooms or from educational contexts supported under state aid for them be valued? If people are stigmatised and segregated would this not impair them socially and thereby intellectually? If your experience is of irrelevant education...

Yes, of course, it's an obvious point to consider, it's even presumed in what I said. Dispositions can't be formed without the means. If you didn't have a family, how would you learn to speak? Would you acquire a work ethic if you existed in isolation? If you existed in isolation because of...

The problem with the video is all the discussion is abstracted. As I was typing my response, it's very difficult to represent the nature of the problems people face because the relationships that underpin economic access are themselves so complicated and abstracted. Generally speaking, which...

I watched the video. I think one argument that is not broached is that, in these societies, access to skills is not in any way straightforward, and, equally, neither is access to employment. A human being cannot just walk out of their home and access the relationships via which they might...