Tristram Hunt and Martin Amis are incorrect on Oxbridge education: in politics empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own) and imagination trump academic successIt is the season for academic snobbery,apparently. Labour was once the “clever party, bemoaned Harry Mount in the Spectator recently, or but now it’s had a “brain transplant. It’s out with the Oxbridge and Harvard graduates with first class degrees; in with the redbrick university graduates”. The horror. Martin Amis concurs,slamming Jeremy Corbyn for being “undereducated”. And now Tristram Hunt is at it, referring to Cambridge University students lazily but revealingly as the “top 1% who had a “responsibility to choose leadership going forward”. Related: Labour risks turning into a sect, and says Tristram Hunt Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com