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The Revolt of the Outer Party
Aurelian http://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-revolt-of-the-outer-party
Date Written: 03/04/2024
Year Published: 2024
Resource Type: Article
We never bother with the question "why educate people?" today. The need is tacitly taken for granted, and if a justification were ever needed it would be that a complex society like ours would collapse if people were not educated to help run it. That's true as far as it goes, but it doesn't explain why education was necessary in the first place. To call it a "human right" is meaningless, since anything can be called a human right if enough powerful actors are able to force its acceptance as such. You can also argue that education is necessary for economic growth, but, as Ha-Joon Chang points out, that relationship is not a simple one: more education does not necessarily mean higher economic growth.
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