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What's Wrong with Private Schools
Author(s) -
MARPLES ROGER
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.12275
Subject(s) - prima facie , warrant , variety (cybernetics) , democracy , cohesion (chemistry) , law and economics , positive economics , sociology , public relations , political science , public economics , economics , law , finance , chemistry , organic chemistry , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science
The aim of this article is to demonstrate the respects in which private schools are unfair, and why they pose a threat to the well‐being of not only those who are excluded on financial grounds, but to democratic equality and social cohesion in general. The shortcomings associated with relying on a form of educational provision that is merely ‘adequate’ are rendered explicit, and the article concludes with a consideration of a variety of measures that might go some way towards nullifying the harmful effects of private schools, the objections to which are sufficiently strong as to warrant a prima facie case for the abolition of such schools.