Human Capital

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’, Standing’s latest book should be required reading for every education minister

Caroline Lucas

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

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 Standing’s 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