25.11.10

Support the protesting students.

Support the protests of a generation denied the fruits of their parents labour. they are their mother,s labour, they who grew near to maturity with a target of university, and the target moved.

 
Apparently there are better things to spend GDP on than education. My freind got kettled with what was essentially a bunch of school kids. NS write up is here

"No plan B" say the worthless VCs.
What are you, a bunch of CEO's? You aren't, because if your were you'd show some testicles.

 
"If they got jobs they wouldnt need to worry" says a greying man in a car.

 
"Oh well they are dumbing everything down in the name of access, we cant afford that. Only people like me should have the means to go to university. "e are self made meritocrats", say those who most resemble me.
  • Fight this trend in the most tenacious and creative ways.
  • Educate pre uni kids in the alternative uni paths in other countries (ireland, asia, europe)
Future protesters would do well to find ways of demonstrating that cant be subverted by kettling. Better internal communication, self organising (of course :-P ). Kettling pretty much ruined the flow and interconnection of the G20 protests in 2008. Now its back.

but the people kettled are the future nonetheless

3 comments:

Shak said...

>Support the protests of a generation denied the fruits of their parents labour.

Well no, I'm paying for this, not their parents.

>Apparently there are better things to spend GDP on than education.

No, there's better things to spend GDP on than wasters who just want three years of dossing to be paid for.

>"If they got jobs they wouldnt need to worry"

I'm not greying yet. And aside from the snide remarks, you haven't said what's so wrong with this statement. There's no invoice to pay here, no final notices or demands, so this isn't a barrier aimed at poor people.

Funny how people are willing to get into hard debt for their iPhones but not for an education - an education that has never been "free" and never will be, and should never be taken for granted as some kind of God given right.

The problem here is that of modern ambition - one only has self worth if they have letters after their names, if they have a job, a defined and literal purpose. The hard truth is that university isn't for everyone - some of the most valuable people to society I know skipped uni because they were smart enough to realise it wasn't for them. But now we're lazy and expect a three year ritual to complete our lives and existences. Take a look at all the unemployable grads and see what they think went wrong.

The fact is that anyone who genuinely thinks a degree will improve their lives will be happy to make the sacrifice. The only people who are complaining are those who know it's a waste of time for them anyway. They just want someone else to take that risk for them.

fug said...

id like my tax to support people interested in education or training.

dont like to see it used for bombs and bail outs and witheld from the erm... 'deserving inquisitive'.

not doubting the wisdom of those who avoid uni really.

not sure what this means

"those who know it's a waste of time for them anyway. They just want someone else to take that risk for them"

teenagers need to be more aware of their options now. yesterdays demo seems to have gone well mA.

Shak said...

>id like my tax to support people interested in education or training.

Well I guess that's what voting is for :).

>not doubting the wisdom of those who avoid uni really.

Never said you were. I was throwing doubt on those who actively seek a degree when they patently shouldn't. Quite unimaginative, in the Asian sphere I blame traditional elitist thinking. No wonder so many of think our careers are all we are.

>not sure what this means

It means that this situation is now a litmus test - only those serious about education will be willing to make the sacrifice. Those who weren't sure and were just using it to put off growing up will be dismayed at the result.

>teenagers need to be more aware of their options now.

It's sad that you think this is a bad thing.

>yesterdays demo seems to have gone well mA.

Not as well as the voting, erm, Alhumdulillah.