Thursday, December 15, 2011

Perhaps Newt Gingrich filched his bright ideas from Europe

Perhaps Newt Gingrich filched his bright ideas from Europe
(Ha-Joon Chang in the Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/14/newt-gingrich-merkel-sarkozy

In light of Gingrich's idea of encouraging 'child labour' (pupils acts as janitors in their own schools) Chang draws some interesting parallels between current policy moves and 18th century labour issues. The modern world isn't always as modern as it likes to think.Newt has been around a long long time...but didn't think that long?

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