No Merit in State Education |
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| Authors: | Graham Dawson |
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| Affiliation: | Graham Dawson teaches economics at Stanney Comprehensive School and is a part-time Tutor in Philosphy for the Open University. He has also completed a doctorate on the sociology of educational knowledge at Keele University. He has published papers in The Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Further and Higher Education and JE4. |
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| Abstract: | Supporters of the welfare state have contended that health and education are 'merit goods' which will be undervalued by individual consumers so that they must be provided by the state. Dr Graham Dawson, a specialist in the economics of education, considers means of paying for private education which will keep the consumer better informed of his costs and options and avoid the wastage which follows when state action divorces producer from consumer. |
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