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I wouldn't suggest that a working class person can't be educated but don't they cease to be working class through the process of education? I guess it's a perceptions thing. My grandparents all worked in factories or in service and consider themselves to be working class. My parents work in teaching (previously PA) and advertising and live in a very middle class fashion (holidays in France, lots of going out to resturants etc) and I definately think of both them and myself as middle class but I know that my mum still deep down thinks of herself as working class because she had a working class childhood and that image of herself has stuck even though she's now living a completely different life. Perhaps that's where the instinct to 'inherit' class comes from - your childhood experience. The thing which has always made me uncomfortable with that idea of 'inheriting' class is that it suggests that you can't move between classes which I strongly disagree with. Perhaps it just depends on how fluid your self image is.