Abstract
The aim of this article is to comment on and interpret a text by Raymond Williams entitled “An Educated Democracy,” published in the journal Socialist Commentary in 1959. Regarding the method, by explaining the author’s text, I seek to analyse his ideas by presenting them in the form of excerpts, in the manner of what Williams taught us as the “interpretative method,” mainly in Reading and Criticism and The Country and the City. Other works of his authorship are also mobilized to discuss what was selected for the debate: “Culture is ordinary;” “Education and British Society;” “Britain in the 1960s;” “You’re a Marxist, aren’t you?;” “The Uses of Cultural Theory;” Politics and Letters, as well as other references indicated in the bibliography to discuss “grammar schools,” “comprehensive schools,” “eleven-plus,” among other constituent elements of the British educational system, on the agenda for the 1959 elections.
Keywords:
Raymond Williams; Labour Party; Education; Democracy; 1959 Elections