Luxury Beliefs

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""Robert Pondiscio wrote about the phenomenon of “luxury beliefs,” a phenomenon coined by University of Cambridge Ph.D. Candidate Rob Henderson, which are defined as “ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.”

Once you become aware of the concept of luxury beliefs, their prevalence in our culture becomes all too apparent, and that “nowhere is [this] gulf between upscale ideals and everyday reality wider or more obvious than in education policy and practice.” Pondiscio says that:

Too few of us know or have personal experience walking in the shoes of the families and students we claim to serve. Instead, we opine about what’s best for other people’s children from the safety of our respective bubbles, indulging our own set of luxury beliefs."

(https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/educations-enduring-love-affair-luxury-beliefs)