A brilliant clarion call to rescue education from individuated, commodified, oligopolised and financialised training. A must read for those of us who crave a re-education in the disappearing art of educating humans -- Yanis Varoufakis A brilliant analysis of how alongside the dangers of fake news and fake politics we risk fake education but also a decisive call to action to tackle the causes of this threat -- John McDonnell One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades. Human Capital provides both the diagnosis and cure to those trying to school us towards competitiveness, individualism, and greed -- Danny Dorling Urgent and compelling, Human Capital is a rallying cry for a radically different kind of education system one that puts imagination and empathy at its heart, and genuinely equips young people for the challenges ahead, instead of the current narrow joyless focus on schooling, where success is measured in money and status alone. A searing attack on the education industry, Standings latest book should be required reading for every education minister -- Caroline Lucas With dazzling depth and lively prose, Human Capital chronicles the juggernaut of forces privatizing and commodifying the experience of education, which in turn is corrupting truth, social ethics, and civic virtue. But Standings book also suggests strategies by which we can revive education as a commons through better systems of knowledge sharing, dialogical learning, collaborative creativity, vernacular practices, intergenerational memory-sharing, and more -- David Bollier Guy Standing is one of our great truth-tellers. We must listen as he argues for the creation of educated minds that can move us away from the competitive horror of what currently passes for schooling, and help create an intergenerational community where equity and democratic values are paramount -- Sally Tomlinson
