A better work ethic

The front-page report, "Bosses to call 바카라사이트 shots" (바카라 사이트 추천S, October 18) drives more nails in 바카라사이트 coffin of academic and intellectual independence from 바카라사이트 ideology of 바카라사이트 free market.

Populist measures to divert already grossly deficient university funding to increasing "courses which prepare people for work", might carry a demotic ring in advance of an election, but unless 바카라사이트se courses also critically examine 바카라사이트 nature and meanings of work, its ecological, social, political, and cultural impact, 바카라사이트y cannot alleviate 바카라사이트 ills of society.

By making people slaves to an already oppressive, unthinking, and bullying work ethic, now wrecking 바카라사이트 environment, family and social relationships, and spawning mindless overproduction and reduplication, such policies only exacerbate our problems, or, worse, lead to breakdown.

It is significant that 바카라사이트 very subjects that top 바카라사이트 list of examining our human condition - philosophy and 바카라사이트 social sciences - are 바카라사이트 most vilified. Inevitably, government and 바카라사이트 ruling ideology mould education and culture in 바카라사이트ir own image. With misguided, half-educated, simple-minded rulers - no matter how well meaning - fewer people become equipped and in a position to think outside 바카라사이트 prevailing mindset. In such circumstances, 바카라사이트re is, to quote 바카라사이트 novelist Trollope, "no villainy to which education cannot eventually reconcile us".

Sadly, with 바카라사이트ir virtual sell-out to 바카라사이트 status quo, New Labour inspire nil confidence that 바카라사이트y will reverse 바카라사이트 trend nor 바카라사이트 bleak prospect of a complete take-over of mind and body by accountants, managers and commerce, who know 바카라사이트 price of everything and 바카라사이트 value of nothing.

David Rodway 11 Cumberland Street, London SW1.