How is educating vs. not educating the same human raw material elitist?
That's not exactly what I said.
The argument was that educating more people gave a better chance of a civilized society.
The underlying belief, then, is that educated people are more likely to be civilized than uneducated people.
That's what I considered elitist. After all, I've known some highly educated bastards and some illiterate people who were VERY civilized.
(It depends, too, on what you include in education. This whole thread started with a discussion of universal public education, so that's the background. So it would exclude going to plays and museums, attending festivals, celebrations, churches, parental and grandparental education, etc.)
Whether elitism is considered good or bad, my argument was not (as you took it) that educating people is elitist,. It was that saying that educated people are more likely to be civilized than uneducated people is elitist. |
