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CLAIM: WHAT IS EDUCATION FOR? Public education should focus on turning…

- - - - At the end of the day it's up to the individuals to make decisions on their own rather than being forced to participate.
- - - - If we choose political equality as our orienting ideal empowering all to participate capably in the life of a polity a different view of education’s purpose, content, and consequence comes into view.
    - - It is said that questions of political equality have no place in the conversation of education, which stops equality from being what it truly means.
    - - In the current condition, we have lost sight of the statesman, a professional politician capable of disinterested deliberation, just frame shifting, and fighting fair. And, even more importantly, we have lost sight of the ideal ordinary citizen, who is not a professional politician but who has nonetheless developed all of the competencies described above and who is proud to be involved in politics.