Activity: UK education

1. Source A shows that education wasn't as big or valued. It isn't a elite school, it's a school for everyone so according to Source A the education was classless.
Source B shows that education was valued and due to economic pressure, leaving it up to the government to take care of education and give opportunities. It agrees with Source A with the fact that most of British society higher ups were able to to access this education.
Source C Agrees with both sources because it shows that middle class students were and had more educational advantages then working class students.

2.1906 "Working men lacked the educational and social skills of their middle- and upper-class counterparts, most of whom had been educated at public school and university. They faced hostility or indifference when they presented themselves as prospective parliamentary candidates, from working-class voters imbued with a deferential preference for representatives drawn from among their social superiors as much as from middle-class election committees reluctant to support a working man. "
"The examination is called the eleven plus . Partly due to the failure to fully implement the tri-partite system prescribed by the 1944 Education Act, the examination came to be seen as delivering a pass/fail result with the academically selected pupils passing and attending grammar schools and the remaining pupils being deemed to have failed and being consigned to the poorly funded schools euphemistically designated Secondary Modern Schools ."
Structure after 1945:
Structure of Educational System
Pre-higher Education System
Higher Education System
Administrative structure of higher education
Admissions to Higher Education and Recognition

3. From the three sources it would appear that education wasn't something that everyone could have in the social structure, do to only upper class or elites being able to obtain higher education. Also with the fact that when that middle class could obtain higher education over working class. This left little social mobility for working class. education became more democratic though in 1973, 20% of British 18 years old received education compared to 75% in America. This left a huge class diverges in Britain at the time with a rich, middle, and lower class. I feel when answering the question it is also important to include women, since gender diverge went down while the social class diverge widened. Since the economy took a dip in the 1970s unemployment soared this meant that little educational opportunities could be provided for the working class, and lower middle class.