We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
Quotes about underclass (9 Quotes)
I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Let's just say there is not another dime coming from anywhere (for bilingual education). I want you to imagine the waste of money when you put a child in the classroom and that child doesn't understand the teacher, the textbook or the test. You are actually increasing an underclass who can't contribute to the economic strength of society.
As long as these kids grow up not only in an economic underclass but excluded from being French or Dutch it's problematic. When people in my community get angry about American foreign policy they get angry as citizens and they fight back as citizens. The process is more open to including them.
Premiering the show online a week before its television transmission is a first for Channel 4 and what better show could we start with than this The IT Crowd is a surreal look at the underclass of a company and we're giving people the chance to see it first.
The underclass, if there is one, is quite small and most people who fall into a position of disadvantage overcome their problems and get back on their feet, ... It's bloody hard but the message is we shouldn't give up on people. The evidence, at the moment, is that most people who become poor don't stay poor for long, so let's not write them off.
They both have a truckload of players, and very good underclass players. The mother lode is at both places.
good theater and even better politics. He has been waging this battle in Latin America, in an effort to extend his political influence and build a counterweight to the United States, and now, in a display of great audacity, he is appealing directly to the considerable underclass in the United States.