Education and Class

• How Inequality Hollows Out the Soul – NYTimes.com

  The current popularity of authors and programs encouraging teachers to help low-income children to develop “grit” begs the questions of why they may psychological differences may develop between wealthy and poor families in growing inequality.

  “So how does increasing inequality factor in? One of the important effects of wider income differences between rich and poor is to intensify the issues of dominance and subordination, and feelings of superiority and inferiority”

  tags: social class 522

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