Putting Educational Equality in its (very important) Place.docVIP

Putting Educational Equality in its Place Harry Brighouse University of Wisconsin, Madison Adam Swift Balliol College, University of Oxford Education, in its broadest sense, mediates between the wider society and our individual prospects. How well a child will do, even what sort of person she will become, in any given society, will be significantly shaped by the kind of education she receives. That education is, in its turn, profoundly influenced by the character of the social order. Whether or not the government makes schooling compulsory and free at the point of delivery makes a difference