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PRIVATE EDUCATION AND ‘EDUCATION FOR ALL’
Author(s) -
Tooley James
Publication year - 2004
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/j.1468-0270.2004.00506.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , private sector , harm , scale (ratio) , quality (philosophy) , business , economic growth , education policy , higher education , public administration , public relations , political science , economics , law , geography , physics , philosophy , linguistics , cartography , quantum mechanics
Government schools cannot provide quality education for all. If the goal of education for all is to be achieved, the private sector must be encouraged and not squeezed out. Development agencies need to wake up to this because large‐scale government education leads to failure on a large scale that can cause serious harm to the poor.