Another review from me: Georgina Brewis and Sam Blaxland's fascinating Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital - I had a great time reading this inventive and attentive (and open access!) history of student life on the beach earlier in the summer 🌞
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
![From my thesis, 'Imagining the Role of the Student in Society: ideas of British higher education policy and pedagogy, 1957-1972', 71.
Robbins also permitted himself what he recognised was an unscientific but egalitarian assumption in the name of fairness which permitted him to advocate the expansion of ‘pastoral power’. There was, he recognised, no way to scientifically prove that utility or satisfaction obtained by one individual from any given resource was of equal satisfaction to another individual. In an example he would frequently deploy, if members of another ‘civilisation’ told ‘us […] that members of his caste were capable of experiencing ten times as much satisfaction from given incomes as members of an inferior caste, we could not refute him […] in any objective sense’. He clarified elsewhere: ‘A Nazi or a Brahmin will choose one method of counting, a western liberal another’. But Robbins permitted the assumption on the grounds of moral necessity that the good society should assume that all individuals did possess equal faculties for the realisation of satisfaction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yozy2cwxiw7pqxoxxzs73oas/bafkreibbjjnmu5nu3xanjonvssvo6iplvbbk5duot32lxhapqkqsyc4jey)
