Postwar British planners deemed lifelong adult education a permanent citizenship necessity

Evidence

Its members honored the newly acknowledged centrality of labor with a groundbreaking commitment written in capital letters that is still an unmet ideal today: “adult education is a permanent national necessity, an inseparable aspect of citizenship, and therefore should be both universal and lifelong.” — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 299

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the contrast between this 1919 ideal of universal lifelong education as a citizenship right and how ‘lifelong learning’ came to be reframed in the neoliberal era as individual worker upskilling for employability.
• XREF: connects to: Postwar Britain declared adult education a permanent universal necessity and community duty; Britain’s 1919 adult education ideal of lifelong universal learning remains unmet — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 299

Broader Connections

• Postwar Britain declared adult education a permanent universal necessity and community duty #corroborates (0.95)
• Britain’s 1919 adult education ideal of lifelong universal learning remains unmet #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 299