"In fact, for most of its modern history, Classics has acted as an effective motor of social mobility, widely available, and acknowledged as a means to a more effective understanding of both history and the contemporary world." https://www.tes.com/news/classics-education-can-drive-social-mobility …
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So, um, I don't think this is true. I think some of the comments in this essay about what classics can provide are good, but social mobility seems like a stretch unfounded in the US, at least, based on recent studies of college and class stratification
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Also, there is an unexamined and problematic notion of how projecting Classics as a class mobilizer reinscribes its contents as the possession of an upper class
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So, one might uncharitably read this essay...although I think the author's intent is certainly not neo-colonial, it has that potential
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In fact, I think my colleague .
@dorothyk98 would probably have a 'fun' time with this one.2 replies 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread
Omg. Just total pretend things are not happening omg.
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