EDUCATION

Education

Education

How is it possible for education to represent both a path for

opportunity and an instrument for maintaining inequality?

EDUCATIOANS AN OPPORTUNITY

Is education and opportunity or a benefit for individuals? Obviously, it is both.

A different interpretation of education potentially consistent with either classical liberalism or equalitarian liberalism actually sanctions state intervention into education.

The question of education as opportunity or benefit here becomes moot. On this view the state may legitimately intervene in otherwise private affairs if it can be shown that individual conduct concerning education breaches the rights or interests of others. (Barry 2004)If education is a necessary means to individual ...