Engines of Privilege

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem
First edition
AuthorFrancis Green
David Kynaston
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN9781526601278
OCLC1101130802

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem is a book by Francis Green and David Kynaston about Private schools in the United Kingdom.[1] The authors argue that the "educational apartheid"[2][3] of independent (private) schools and state schools in the United Kingdom:

  1. prevents social mobility and meritocracy
  2. underpins damaging democratic deficit
  3. perpetuates privilege (and social inequality) through generations[4]
  4. deploys national resources unfairly and suboptimally
  1. ^ Green, Francis; Kynaston, David (2019). Engines of privilege : Britain's private school problem. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-5266-0127-8. OCLC 1108696740.
  2. ^ Green, Francis; Kynaston, David (2019). "It is educational apartheid: are we finally ready to end private schools?". The Guardian – via theguardian.com. "in no other western society are private schools so deeply entrenched or so corrosive in their effects"—Francis Green and David Kynaston
  3. ^ Goodfellow, Maya (2019). "Should we abolish private schools?". The Guardian – via youtube.com.
  4. ^ Rajan, Amol (2019). "Why middle class kids get the best jobs - BBC Stories". youtube.com. BBC.