Is Damien Hirst the right person to mentor Britain's young?

This is the tittle or the question with which the articles opens and let see the central topic of discussion. Damien Hirst is a mentor for young Britain artist for the future Generation art prize, besides helping launching on the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.

The articles question the figure of Damien Hirst and his role for the young people, showing a alarming statistics that shows how Britain is falling on the developed on literacy and numeracy. England and Ireland, young people between 16 to 24 years old come 12^th and 21th in literacy and numeracy respectively in a global comparison. This, clarifies the article, isn’t directly the blame of the artist, but he and the revolution of British art helped  to he define of the young British artist, between  football players overpaid, reality shows, etc. has sent the message that education is worthless, in return you can earn more money and respect  by  quote “pickling a shark”.

 The originality and wit of Hirst have taken a back seat, over his financial career, on this way art has become on the signature of the culture of Britain and Hirst the most “outstanding” figure. Following this road we can say that art is about money, art as just market.

 The articles close whit a warning, despise knowledge and overvalue money isn’t a good move its dangerous sent that kind of message to the young,

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/oct/15/damien-hirst-mentor-future-generation-art-prize