Can you back up your allegations of indecent education? To me that's an unusual claim but maybe you know more history than I do. What is this decent education notion?
It's free information... look it up.
Romans and Greeks were educated by family (privately) employed Pedagogues, all other education was trade-based. Because of the lack of opportunity for upward mobility and the relative poverty that the Head Count lived in, they would usually train under their fathers.
This is education, but in terms of political and mercantile application, it was not "decent".
Because there was no such thing as upward mobility and nouveau riche before state schools came along? News to me.
Yes, because that's what I said right?
No, it wasn't. What I did say is that the restriction of education based on economic prosperity ensures a general stratification of society. Before public education, there was little in the way of class mobility... unless of course you have evidence to the contrary?
Failed how? Piano teachers seem to make a decent living not to mention those other 30 examples above.
And here we have the crux of the matter.
Do a little research and come back to me. Key to this research should be the words "efficiency movement in education" and "market model education".
Read Adams and Hamer (2006) "Inequality and social stratification in society. (in education and society in Aotearoa NZ)
Read Carpenter's "Teaching New Zealand's children of the poor" (2008).
Read Martin Thrupp ... pretty much anything.
Lee and Lee (G & H) for background on social issues in education... particularly social mobility and education.
"Bright futures and the knowledge society" by JD Marshall is great for the examination of knowledge as a right treated as a commodity.
Once you have read those few articles, chapters, and papers you will almost be up to pace on the background of the efficiency movement (known as the market model in the states I'm pretty sure).
Very few (if any) respected educational theorists support it.
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