----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:26 AM Subject: [PEN-L:29637] No Brains, No Revolution Re: Who Make the revolution?
> Hari wrote: > > >Yoshi: Your stats are interesting. But certainly my reading is that > >while there are more workers/children of workers in higher education - > >they are still the tip of the iceberg. Interestingly enough Michael > >Zwieg agrees with your overview: > >"There seems to be relationship at all between the occupation of colleeg > >graduates & the occupation of their fathers, suggesting that a college > >education does provide a ticket out of the Working class"; "The Working > >class majority - America's best kept secret"; Ithaca 2000; p. 44. > >But he then goes right on to say: > >"In 1996 however fewer than a quarter fo all people over 25 in the US > >had actually competed a colelge education...... & college students are > >drawn disproportionately form middle & upper-class families". > >I have a difficult time seeing the majority of workers getting a higher > >education. > > It's still a minority of the US working class who receive four-year > college degrees, given poor retention rates (primarily due to a > combination of high tuition, students' need to combine study, work, > and family obligations, and poor preparation given to them in > separate and unequal schools in primary and secondary schools): ========================= You forgot partying.................:-) Ian
