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Society should root for the “inverse social-mobility breaker,” the call goes. Many young people find it hard to choose an education that is shorter than their parents’.

Parents need to let go of the education hierarchy for their children’s sake

William Schott Thomsen, 22, is an apprentice automation technician at Danfoss. Private photo.
William Schott Thomsen, 22, is an apprentice automation technician at Danfoss. Private photo.
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Although he didn’t really want to, for years 22-year-old William Schott Thomsen believed he was supposed to go to upper secondary school. Throughout his years in primary and lower secondary school, he had never been especially interested in academics and figured upper secondary school would be a waste of time.

»But in my mind it was just a given, so I’d made my peace with it«, he says, sounding outright weary at the thought of three years in a classroom.

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