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Re: [xmca] Fwd: Value(s) and Higher Education



The depth of the depravity described in this review is shocking. Britain was once the paragon of free universal public service, and has now been dragged down to a level even worse than Oz or the USA. How far can this process go? In his PhD thesis in 1968, James Coleman suggested that although every citizen was entitled to a vote, people ought to be allowed to sell their vote on the market, much like the "education voucher" of which Milton Friedman was an early advocate.

The irony is that the elimination of the ethos of free, universal education as a public good, is offered in diect response to the utter failure of the market to regulate financial investment. Why on Earth do these people think the market will do a better job of regulating learning?

Andy

mike cole wrote:
For more of the story check out the most recent NY Review of books
or get an English colleague to forward a summary document. Before long its
going to be in a convenience store near you, or perhaps a Walmart.
mike
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From: Frank Kessel <kesfam@pdq.net>
Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:18 PM
Subject: Value(s) and Higher Education
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