EDUCATION AND MODERNITY |
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| Authors: | Dennis O'Keeffe |
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| Institution: | Dennis O'Keeffe is Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Buckingham, UK. |
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| Abstract: | Modernity is the combination of capitalism and democracy. Its economic core is based on property rights, which mobilise the organisation of resources. It also requires mass education to select intellectual talent for a complex division of labour. Western education paradoxically lacks developed property rights and a class of owners who seek profits through the satisfaction of consumer (educational) demand. Most of the intellectual ills in our society reflect this absence of modernity in our educational arrangements. |
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