The Workers Educational Association

I've been meaning to write something substantial about my experience of working for the WEA from Sept. 09 to Sept 10 - for some time now. It was an unbelievably draining and disempowering experience.
At first I thought that it was just my immediate colleagues that were the problem but, unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that it is much more widespread than this and possibly includes the whole national organisation.
I did come to the WEA after working in universities for 13 years. This post is just a mapping out for a future piece of writing as I don't have the time to write it now.
1. Introduction - The WEA - aims and objectives, mission and history.
2. Some commentaries - I have seen many and my first thought is that it wil be difficult to find anything substantial that is critical. Look.
3. My experience - on a one year active citizenship project. The discrepancy between the treatment of students/ learners and staff. The incompetence, the lack of education, the muddle-headedness, the pointless and very heavy-handed bureaucracy, the insensitivity, the inverted arrogance of working-class South Yorkshire folk. The stupidity. The intransigence regarding what constitutes a useful educational approach. The anachronism - pre-modern!! The lack of understanding of the contemporary world. The destructiveness of all of this.
4. How has this happened? Something to do with relationship between adult and higher education - inferiority complex, defensive arrogance. The WEA has frozen itself in a time warp and said 'we are right' without any reference to any agency outside the organisation.
Yet it has managed to continue to exist for 105 years! How?
5. Conclusion - the WEA as an unhealthy element in the panoply of adult education providers. A workerist, horny-handed, laughable and anti-education organisation.

Sounds interesting!