Gruetzi Christoph, I'll see your Thatcher and raise you one. Here in Ontario, education being a provincial matter, we had a former 'socialist' premier do a review of post-secondary education. His recommendations were a deregulation of tuitions and a replacement of grants with loans for students. We now have students graduating with $40k+ debts into a severely depressed job market. Collection agencies are having a field day. Meanwhile, our 'Liberal' premier cut the special food allowance for those with special needs on welfare and replaced it with a piddling increase across the board. He, today, in honour of our Thanksgiving, appealed to the citizens of the province to be generous in their donations to the local food bank. It appears that the supply cannot keep up with the demand.
Cheers, Ed Davey -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 3:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Not a very positive picture Keith Hudson wrote: > At 17:35 06/10/2010 -0400, REH wrote: > >When education went private and students began paying the actual bill then > >college became impossible for the poor. > > You have things the wrong way round. Education was private from the very > beginning. Think of the gymnasia of ancient Greece. Think of the grammar > schools of Medieval England. My own old school, Bablake, started as a > gift from Queen Isabella for a dozen poor boys of Coventry (free board, Oh well, Keith's Anglo-centrism again... Guess what, the world does not only consist of England (and Bismarck's Germany). In modern countries, education IS public, and it was only Thatcherism that rolled it back to privatization. So REH is absolutely right on this one. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
