Open AccessOn Education & the Common Good
Author(s) -
John F. Covaleskie
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.727
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v2n11.1994
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , public education , point (geometry) , sort , sociology , human life , social life , public relations , political science , psychology , social science , law , public administration , psychotherapist , geometry , mathematics , computer science , information retrieval , humanity
This response to Coulson's recent EPAA piece, "Human Life, Human Organizations, and Education," argues that Coulson is wrong about "human nature," social life, and the effects of unregulated capitalist markets. On these grounds, it is argued that his call to remove education from the public sphere should be rejected. The point is that education is certainly beneficial to individuals who receive it, but to think of education as purely a private and personal good properly distributed through the market is seriously to misconstrue the meaning of education. We should not care to be the sort of people who do so.