Please Stop Patronising the Poor

Yomna El-Serafy
Nov 6 · 6 min read

We need to change our rhetoric on ‘The Poor’.

I was sitting in a seminar not too long ago, talking about the economics of education and social justice. It was part of a course on Education, Globalisation and International Development, unironically, in the University of Cambridge.

The lecturer gave us a scenario to discuss in groups. In the scenario, we were parents in a developing…

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Yomna El-Serafy

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University of Cambridge, MPhil student. Researching Education and International Development. Writing about people and the world.

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