One aspect that becomes noticeable when working in a charity shop is the volume of self-education books primarily dating from the Sixties and early Seventies. While that trend still remains to a limited extent, insofar as language learning and history books continue to sell well, the earlier tendency was highly specialised, with cheap titles on economic history, sociology and psychology popularised by Penguin and Fontana, among others. Was this a pre-Open University recognition that earlier generations had missed out on a higher education, and wanted erudite popular primers to grasp a quickly-evolving world? And is it the case that present generations are inclined to take education for granted, making them less intellectually curious than their forebearers?
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