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My dad worked at Barking College of Technology for 20+ years, teaching literature including Shakespeare to hundreds of local people including a great many workers from the Ford factory in nearby Dagenham. They were paid, by Ford, for their one day a week at college at the same rates as if they'd been at work.
Eta: and my maternal grandad and great-uncle were involved in (self organised, outside paid working hours) workers education amongst miners in Northumberland back in the day. They learnt Latin and studied poetry together, amongst other things.
It used to be normal, that sorta thing, according to my late grandad. For the men, at least.
Stuff that that still about in a slightly different form.
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