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EDUCATION AND MODERNITY
Author(s) -
O'Keeffe Dennis
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00413
Subject(s) - modernity , capitalism , democracy , mass education , intellectual property , sociology , class (philosophy) , division of labour , political economy , political science , market economy , higher education , economics , law , epistemology , philosophy , politics
Modernity is the combination of capitalism and democracy. Its economic core is based on property rights, which mobilise the organisation of resources. It also requires mass education to select intellectual talent for a complex division of labour. Western education paradoxically lacks developed property rights and a class of owners who seek profits through the satisfaction of consumer (educational) demand. Most of the intellectual ills in our society reflect this absence of modernity in our educational arrangements.