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The broken promise of education as an equaliser
We have long called education the great equaliser. The idea is simple: no matter what socio-economic class you are born into, the classroom gives you a fair shot. Study hard, pass the exam, and the ladder will hold your weight. This year, students on two continents tested that ladder and found rungs missing. Their anger is the clearest evidence we have that the equaliser has stopped equalising. In India, a generation that adopted the cockroach as its mascot after a judge used the word as an insult spent the summer on the streets of New Delhi. In July, they forced the education minister to resi...
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