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kjn ([personal profile] kjn) wrote in [personal profile] canyonwalker 2021-02-11 06:35 am (UTC)

No idea. The only real account of it I have about it is in a short autobiographical essay my aunt wrote a couple years back about her life as a psychiatrist.

But suspicion towards the academic system was very much part of the cultural landscape of not only Swedish working class, but the working class movement, at the time. That was starting to change, but Tore was clearly a success story for the institutions the Swedish working class movement had managed to build themselves.

My grandmother had a slightly different perspective. She had longed to go for a elementary teacher's seminar, but her family couldn't afford it and she was denied any scholarship (through nepotism, as I understand it).

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