While we are on the subject of the London mayor, Boris Johnson, I found another article, speaking of his Classics degree.
One quote particularly got my attention:
How can it be?
Perhaps what he referred to was that back then a Classics degree would have only been gotten by someone of an illustrious family. Such a person would have received all the necessary practical training in politics from his immediate family.
In this case, a Classics degree would have separated the person from the common folk, while the practical aspect of governing would be gotten elsewhere.
Is this what is meant (between the lines) here?
One quote particularly got my attention:
I understand that this is the person's-in-question father speaking, but is this... true?Boris Johnson's father Stanley summed it up in a newspaper interview at the weekend, saying: "In the days when Britain ruled more than a quarter of the world, a classical education was considered more than adequate training for the job of handling populations certainly as large and diverse as London's."
How can it be?
Perhaps what he referred to was that back then a Classics degree would have only been gotten by someone of an illustrious family. Such a person would have received all the necessary practical training in politics from his immediate family.
In this case, a Classics degree would have separated the person from the common folk, while the practical aspect of governing would be gotten elsewhere.
Is this what is meant (between the lines) here?