That’s it…
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Been reading Orwell?
In high school.
Ahhh, I read it in middle school. Did you know the donkey is based on Stalin-era’s ambassador D. Molotov? Can’t spell his first name.
I must of known at one time. We analyzed that book to death in English class. It is not just a book on animals as most people know.
I was reading something today about equal opportunity and access to education and all that. I’m from Australia - where there’s a big difference between private/grammar schools and public schools - if your parents can afford private education, you’re already well ahead of your public-school counterparts.
Then there’s University (it’s on a loan scheme, so you don’t pay it back until you get a job earning over a certain amount). Fair enough. But I remember some of the students in my class were working 2-3 jobs whilst trying to study full-time. Very smart kids, but being exhausted and not having enough time to study aren’t conducive to great academic performance. Some dropped out, realising that had to choose between food/housing or study. Some had to quit in order to help their families. Meanwhile I was living at home and had all my expenses taken care of. I worked but my life didn’t depend on the $300 I made a week.
So, equal opportunity is more or less a farce; I’d rather have some semblance of it than nothing at all but all in all, the circumstances you are born into dictate how and when and if you can use the resources available to further yourself.
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Thank you.
Some might be seeing myself on another site digging up all of the old material our grandparents swept under the carpet but I would never settle on conviction that ‘Life is just a school and those who are suffering are only actors or are ‘doing it wrong.’’
No matter what conviction one holds there are still real people out there in need of help.