The purpose of underfunded Public Education next to high quality Private Education is to make sure that the scions of the upper middle class and upper class inherit their parent’s priviledges without having to compete with more capable people who were born amonsgt the 90% of the population who aren’t upper middle and upper class.
The reason why the upper middle class and the upper class don’t end Public Education altogether is that they would be poorer in a nation were most people did not have the necessary Education (think: unable to read and write) to work with the higher productivity devices of present day (countries were most people can’t even read or write are invariably dirt poor).
So the Public Schools train for free the children of the 90% to make them capable to do low paid work in a Developed Nation whilst the higher quality Private Schools serve as gatekeepers to most high pay positions, using as selection criteria the wealth of the pupil’s parents rather than the scholastic ability of the actual pupil.
It’s not by chance that Neoliberals the world over, whilst claiming they want a free and competitive market, are always in favour of more Private Education and less Public Education - it’s not about free and unbounded competition in all markets (including the job market) but rather the opposite: it’s about making sure the highly capables children who happen to have been born in less well off families cannot compete with their own children in the job market.
The purpose of underfunded Public Education next to high quality Private Education is to make sure that the scions of the upper middle class and upper class inherit their parent’s priviledges without having to compete with more capable people who were born amonsgt the 90% of the population who aren’t upper middle and upper class.
The reason why the upper middle class and the upper class don’t end Public Education altogether is that they would be poorer in a nation were most people did not have the necessary Education (think: unable to read and write) to work with the higher productivity devices of present day (countries were most people can’t even read or write are invariably dirt poor).
So the Public Schools train for free the children of the 90% to make them capable to do low paid work in a Developed Nation whilst the higher quality Private Schools serve as gatekeepers to most high pay positions, using as selection criteria the wealth of the pupil’s parents rather than the scholastic ability of the actual pupil.
It’s not by chance that Neoliberals the world over, whilst claiming they want a free and competitive market, are always in favour of more Private Education and less Public Education - it’s not about free and unbounded competition in all markets (including the job market) but rather the opposite: it’s about making sure the highly capables children who happen to have been born in less well off families cannot compete with their own children in the job market.