If education is all about getting a job, the humanities are left just to the rich | Kenan Malik
‘We rented a garret, for which we paid (I think) 25s a year, bought a few second-hand forms and desks, borrowed a few chairs from the people in the house, bought a shilling’s worth of coals… and started our college. ”
So remembered Joseph Greenwood, a cloth cutter in a West Yorkshire mill, about how, in 1860, he helped set up Culloden College, one of hundreds of working-class mutual improvement societies in 19th-century Britain. “We had no men of position or education connected with us,” he added, “but several of the students who had made special study of some particular subject were appointed teachers, so that the teacher of one class might be a pupil in another. ”
Greenwood’s story is one of many told by Jonathan Rose in his classic The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, a magnificent history of the struggles of working people
Education is one effort to improve the standard of human sources. Each state constitutions guarantee the proper of every Indonesian citizen to get instruction. Such a formulation seems to be the assumption of the founders of the State (the founding fathers) that through pendidikanlah nation of Indonesia can be an intelligent nation. Intelligent nation is believed will produce a nation that may compete with other nations.
Did anyone ever let you know in faculty the right way to become rich? The children had chosen the food themselves from a brand new serving line, which was made attainable by a grant from the the U.S. Division of Agriculture aimed at encouraging youngsters to eat healthier college lunches. USDA has been offering a new round of grants since 2013 to improve kitchen and cafeteria equipment. Ygnacio Valley Elementary College is in the Mount Diablo Unified Faculty District, which acquired a USDA grant.