She wonders if the educated class is beginning to look at the less-educated class — portrayed on TV in shows like "Teen Mom 2" and "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" — as a distant, dysfunctional spectacle.
As Andrei Zorin, a historian at Oxford University, explains, the efforts of Stalin and Peter the Great involved the forced creation of an educated class capable of generating, or at least replicating, the best Western innovation.
I wouldn't be surprised if same-sex marriage shook out the way hetero marriage has — great stability at the top of the educated class, great instability among the less educated.
Today there is a mass educated class.
The Polish educated class suffered greatly.
There is an educated middle class at last, and Russia's voice has often been the sane one in international affairs: without it, we would have another Iraq in Syria and probably Lebanon.
In the 19th century, the English ruling classes, educated at Oxford and Cambridge, were obliged to study Athens in detail, in the original Greek texts, to discover what lessons could be learned in the management of Britain's enormous world empire, and indeed in the conduct of the parliamentary democracy.
But the films never rang entirely true because their directors (such as Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson) were regarded as slumming privately educated, middle-class intellectuals, playing at being workers.As a result, British cinema was always the Cinderella of the arts the poor relation of theatre, literature and television.
He was educated at Union College (Class of 1960) and received an MBA from Rutgers University.
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University (Class of 1953) and Cambridge University.
