Abstract
Educational freedom does not consist in the right of every individual to use such economic advantages as he may happen to possess in order to secure special opportunities for himself and his children, or in the unfettered discretion of those who control educational resources to employ them to gratify their natural, but antisocial, egotism.... Those who have seen the inside both of lawyers' chambers and of coal mines will not suppose that of the inhabitants of those places of gloom the former are more constantly inspired by the humanities than are the latter, or that conveyancing is in itself a more liberal art than hewing. -R. H. Tawney, The Radical Tradition
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