If Britain Wants To Get Unstuck, Let It Move
By Mara-Iarina Ene
We are the most educated generation in history, yet one of the least employable. Attending university no longer guarantees a job, although for decades, that was the point of it. As children, many of us were steered away from the things we liked and were good at, on the grounds that we would “never get a job” as a painter, or singer, or dancer. This has had a lasting negative impact on the self-esteem of many young people whose talents were not valued in school. Instead, the whole system of public education seems to have done its best to get us all admitted into university… and then abandoned us there. No wonder then that so many of us, including myself, feel stuck. Perhaps what we need now is movement, literal movement, to get unstuck.
For as long as humans have l...
