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The arguments by current education reformers: that too many Black parents do not value education and are not transmitting the proper values to their children; that teachers’ unions are an obstacle to racial justice in education; that philanthropists are Black parents’ best ally in the struggle for equality; and that racial justice is not synonymous with desegregation or equitable funding, but rather with market-oriented changes that foster competition and encourage private-sector management of schools are based on a dubious set of propositions about racial politics today.
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
The extension of the market mechanism to the elements of industry-labor, land, and moneywas the inevitable consequence of the introduction of the factory system in a commercial society. The elements of industry had to be on sale.
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
Ethics is not like any ordinary science. It must arise from the deepest understanding of human qualities, and such understanding comes only when one undertakes the journey of discovery personally. An ethic that is built exclusively on intellectual ideas and that is not buttressed at every point by virtue, genuine wisdom, and compassion has no solid foundation.
Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
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