OK, I accept I could have explained that better.
Education is not only factual, it's also social and moral. This is part of what Pannonian meant when head said Brits don't like to think they have "moved up". The implication is that an education elevates you socially. Going to university moves you from the Working Class to the Middle Class.
IA would counter that whilst his education might make his kids Middle Class it doesn't change his social class.
The truth - I think - is somewhere in between.
Now on to what I said.
Implicit in Legs' comments is the belief that if the right-wing working class were better educated they would be more left-wing and therefore would have voted In because all the right-wing out campaign had going for it was false promises.
However, the higher up the educational ladder they go the more Left-wing it becomes because it's a clique. I'm not sure how far you got but as you know I'm trying to finish my PhD and I've had a problem. My department has refused to give me teaching experience, despite the number of years I've been doing the PhD (I'm part time) I've been given a total of about 6 hours teaching to do - and that was from one academic who is a friend in the department. Aside from that I was frozen out, and that prevented me from getting my AHEA certification because you have to do a minimum of something like six sessions, and I only did four.
That pretty much locks me out of teaching once I finish the PhD, certainly at a university of comparable stature to Exeter.
It's a bit depressing, if I'm honest, and part of it is that, I don't quite "fit", my opinions don't fit with the rest of the College, a few years ago at a dinner I pointed out to the rest of the table that drugs are not exclusively a problem of the Urban poor, they afflict the rural poor just as much. I was taken seriously because I grew up on a small-holding and I have direct experience of this in the local town. I rather exposed the ignorance of the other diners though.
This is a problem both of my class and my political outlook - that would be landed middle class btw (as opposed to educated middle class).
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