How Not to be a Hypocrite: School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Parent

Author:   Adam Swift
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415311175


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   13 March 2003
Format:   Paperback
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How Not to be a Hypocrite: School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Parent


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Author:   Adam Swift
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780415311175


ISBN 10:   0415311179
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   13 March 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I - Choosing the School Rules 1. What can I do for my children? 2. What am I buying? 3. What's wrong with selection? 4. The real world 5. Respecting parents' rights Part II - Choosing Schools Given the Rules 6. Why hypocrisy is a red herring 7.Legitimate partiality and individual choice 8. How good is good enough? 9. The futility of individual choice? 10. It is not my decision 11. Moving House Conclusion

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Swift uses the weapon of moral philosophy in clear English devestatingly to demonstrate the social and moral disfunctionality of the dominance of Britain's private schools in our education system and the shallowness of the arguments supporting them. This is the most intellectually aggressive case for state education in recent times. - Will Huttonls it fair that our education system permits children's chances in life to be influenced by their parents' ability and willingness to pay?; Swift uses the weapon of moral philosophy in clear English devestatingly to demonstrate the social and moral disfunctionality of the dominance of Britain's private schools in our education system and the shallowness of the arguments supporting them. This is the most intellectually aggressive case for state education in recent times. - Will Hutton


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Adam Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Sociology at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.

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