Education and inequality
Sir, — J. M. Bremner (June 19) states that the three learned gentlemen of Canterbury University reached a conclusion that could have been forecast by anyone of average intelligence. There is probably some benefit in the “virtues of hard work, enterprise and self discipline” that the correspondent mentions, however, to the oppressed lower class, — the existence — many people deny of which these values are seen as hard work by them, and enterprise by employers in making sure that they can make the worker give as much as possible for minimum cost. As to self-discipline, I would suggest that J. M. Bremner try pretending to be a Maori or Polynesian, try to get a job, or better still, a flat, and then tell us more about selfdiscipline. I am not saying that hard work, enterprise and self discipline are bad, I am saying that they are different things to different people. — Yours, etc.,
G. NODA. June 18, 1984.
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