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> From: "Watley George" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Not just corruption - also undeclared official policy [Was: Re: info]
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:57:47 +0100
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> If the Government could find a way to get all of the long-time and
> multi-generational able bodied benefit recipients to work, immigration
> would not be a major issue like it is today. ...
> ... I used to teach in secondary schools and I asked a young, poorly
> performing British-born student what she was going to do after Year 11.
> She said I'm not worried, I'll collect benefits just like my mum. About
> 4 years later, I saw her frequently in town with her 2 children in the
> middle of the day and I'm sure she was not working.<snip>
>
All universities derive from Oxford and Cambridge and all UK secondary schools from public schools. This system exists to (1) fail people who then can do manual jobs, join the military or reproduce; (2) generate a stream of over-specialised 'educated' workers to perform various tasks for the state or the private sector.
The young woman has a role in all of this. As well as raising children she is part of a pool of potential workers. Almost certainly she will be drawn into the economy eventually - perhaps in a low-paid job.
The system was created to run an empire, and has changed little. Of special interest is the use of sport in schools to promote notions of white supremacy.
Reading list:
Deschooling society, by Ivan Illich
Learning to labour: how working class kids get working class jobs, by Paul Ellis
The pedagogy of the oppressed, by Paolo Freire
The Games Ethic and Imperialism, by J. A. Mangan
comments welcome
Max
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