affect how do you do at school? Quite rightly, some people have answered this in terms of the kind of squeeze that affects all working class children – lack of money, time and living space.
But there's something else. It's to do with the nature of what we might call "school knowledge". This is based on what used to be called "book learning", it favours the written word over the spoken, the theoretical and abstract over the practical.
from Michael Rosen: Socialist Worker: Class selects the educational elite
also Michael Rosen in: The Sunday Times: A novel approach to the classroom
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