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The article describes
the history of the demand for equal chances at school at the
parliament of Geneva between 1885 and 1977. To begin with, there
is an increase of democratic awareness in regard to the facilitation
of access to higher education for the children of disadvantaged
social classes; this soon, in connection with the access of
available professions, is combined with aggressive Malthusianism.
It was mainly the Social Democratic
Party that fought for the introduction of uniform schools,
from which it expected fundamental compositional changes of
the élites. The progress of this confrontation altered
itself when experts showed the majority of the parliament
that the school of Geneva wasn't as democratic as it perceived
itself, and most of all, the aforementioned Malthusianism
was able to create a loudly lamented lack of an upcoming generation.
The right and the political middle now advocated what the
left had hoped for, but with completely different motives.
The battle for equal chances of success at school now entered
the era of ambiguities. |
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