{"product_id":"9781526601261","title":"Engines of Privilege : Britain's Private School Problem","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eEngines of Privilege\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): David Kynaston, Francis Green\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritain's private, fee-paying schools are institutions where children from affluent families have their privileges further entrenched through a high-quality, richly resourced education. There is an irrefutable link between private schools and life's gilded path: private school to top university to top career. \u003ci\u003eEngines of Privilege \u003c\/i\u003econtends that, in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, of fairness and of social cohesion, the educational apartheid separating private schools from our state schools deploys our national educational resources unfairly and inefficiently; blocks social mobility; reproduces privilege down the generations; and underpins a damaging democratic deficit in our society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntrinsic to any vision of the future of Britain has to be the nature of our educational system. Yet the quality of conversation on the issue of private education remains surprisingly sterile, patchy and highly subjective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Francis Green and David Kynaston carefully examine options for change, while drawing on the valuable lessons of history. Accessible, evidence-based and inclusive, \u003ci\u003eEngines of Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e aims to kick-start a long overdue national debate. Clear, vigorous prose is combined with forensic analysis to powerful effect, illuminating the painful contrast between the importance of private schools in British society and the near-absence of serious, policy-shaping debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003eThoroughly researched and written with such calm authority\u003c\/b\u003e, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation” —\u003ci\u003eJohn O'Farrell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Their \u003cb\u003etone is calm and evidence-based, not agitprop\u003c\/b\u003e … \u003cb\u003eThey have made up my mind\u003c\/b\u003e. I now feel clear not just that change is urgently needed, but that \u003cb\u003eoptions for change are more varied, imaginative and realistic than I'd dared imagine\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eMaggie Fergusson, Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003eFascinating \u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eAlex Renton, Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003e'[A] powerful attack on private schools as engines of privilege\u003c\/b\u003e … \u003cb\u003ea forensic examination\u003c\/b\u003e of what the authors call “Britain's private school problem” … They start strong … \u003cb\u003eleaving you in no doubt \u003c\/b\u003eabout the path from private schooling to the elite … \u003cb\u003eThis book does a fine job of explaining and damning Britain's private school problem\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eHugo Rifkind, The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003eA passionate attack on private schools\u003c\/b\u003e … Kynaston's flair for anecdotes shines through ... \u003cb\u003eFascinating \u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eDominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003eTimely\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The historical background to our arguments over state and private education today is the most intriguing part of \u003ci\u003eEngines of Privilege ... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eimbued with Kynaston's fascination with the arguments and mores of post-war Britain\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eAnne McElvoy, Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Francis Green and David Kynaston \u003cb\u003esay loud and clear that Britain's private schools are a social problem\u003c\/b\u003e … This book provides warnings and lessons of what doesn't work and ideas of what policies could work to dismantle these 'engines of privilege'” —\u003ci\u003eSocialist Worker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A \u003cb\u003efresh dissection\u003c\/b\u003e of what [Kynaston and Green] deem \"Britain's private school problem\" ... We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] \u003cb\u003ef\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eorensic and damning\u003c\/b\u003e examination of ... \"Britain's private school problem\"” —\u003ci\u003eThe Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“David Kynaston is \u003cb\u003eone of the great chroniclers of our modern story\u003c\/b\u003e ... Every paragraph contains some \u003cb\u003eglittering\u003c\/b\u003e nugget” —\u003ci\u003ePraise for David Kynaston's 'Modernity Britain', Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An \u003cb\u003eexemplary \u003c\/b\u003enarrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously and plenty of focus on people and their quirks … \u003cb\u003eFascinating\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003ePraise for 'Till Time's Last Sand', The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is \u003cb\u003ethe work of a scholar with a gift for illuminating every square inch of each enormous canvas he chooses to paint\u003c\/b\u003e … Kynaston brings characters large and small to life” —\u003ci\u003ePraise for 'Till Time's Last Sand', Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A historian of\u003cb\u003e peerless sensitivity and curiosity \u003c\/b\u003eabout the lives of individuals” —\u003ci\u003ePraise for 'Modernity Britain', Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781526601261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40683312709838,"sku":"9781526601261","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_eb1be670-a95c-4d49-a8cf-d24244ec5325.jpg?v=1640147761","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781526601261","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}