Education and the modern state
O'Hear A.
2012
Social Philosophy and Policy
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10.1017/S0265052511000100
In this paper I show how modern democratic states are likely to be inimical to traditional liberal education. Drawing on theoretical considerations and recent history I show how any attempt to promote traditional educational values through state interventions, such as national curricula or state regulation, is bound to be illusory. The preservation of liberal education will best be served by the wholesale removal of education from the progressive state and its bureaucracies. © Copyright Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 2012.
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