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

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

9780415311168


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 April 2003
Format:   Hardback
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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: 1.70cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9780415311168


ISBN 10:   0415311160
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 April 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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