Walter Feinberg
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What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public Engagement

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The unique mission of a public education is to reproduce a civic public. For the most part this will not happen in a vacuum and requires specific institutions, the most prominent of which are the public schools. Publicly supported schools have other functions as well. They socialize, train, produce a workforce, and, hopefully, promote individual growth and autonomy. Walter Feinberg argues that while all of these functions may be carried on by private or religious schools as well, public schools should have the additional responsibility of reproducing a civic public for a diverse pluralistic so...