The System that Failed Available to Purchase

In the past, the View pages have been given over to educationists and politicians who share our belief in equality in education. This month, Jack Jones — general secretary of the giant Transport and General Workers Union and one of the country's foremost trade union leaders — puts forward his philosophy of education. As a former Liverpool docker who fought in Spain, Mr Jones outlines his view that, whatever progress has been made in education, the child of the manual worker is still at the bottom of the pile. However unpalatable that view is, it is backed up both by Newsom and Plowden, and we believe it to be true.