George Sims (educationalist)

George Sims was a working class educationalist who was one of the founders of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

George started working at the age of eight, however as one of his duties as a page was reading The Times to his employer he developed a thirst for learning.^[1]

In 1909 George was one of the students at Ruskin College who had set up an independent study circle which sought to collectively read Karl Marx's Das Capital.

References

1. Macintyre, Stuart (1980). A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain, 1917-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.