what resources a society distributes but what its citizens are actually able to do and to be. Sen had define... guarantee all of these capabilities to all of its citizens at some appropriate threshold level "falls short ... n insistence that educational provision must meet citizens where they are, addressing physical, emotional, a... erations of useful machines, rather than complete citizens who can think for themselves, criticize tradition
s no legitimate authority over the beliefs of its citizens, that true religious faith cannot be coerced, and...
==== Government by Consent and the Education of Citizens ====
The Two Treatises of Government (1689) prov... what education must accomplish in a free society. Citizens capable of giving or withholding meaningful conse... s an educated citizenry and that the education of citizens is therefore a political obligation of the first
subjects by example to be upstanding leaders and citizens, and that the cultivation of this relationship — ... stakeholder in the formation of democratic-minded citizens. Second, his insistence on the unity of theory an... ideal of education as a public good preparing all citizens equally for civic life, and the practical reality
of this analysis are direct and far-reaching: if citizens in democratic societies are systematically misinf... the cultivation of autonomous, critically minded citizens capable of challenging those structures; and seco... risks but a transformation in political culture: citizens must be capable of understanding the structural f
the role of schools in the political formation of citizens — but were unified by a single governing convicti... through the increased productive capacity of its citizens. The Seventh Annual Report (1843), recording his
been an instrument of social control — producing citizens who identify with the state and its elites, who a... lassroom as a space for the formation of critical citizens rather than the transmission of authorised conten
