ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the difficulties and challenges related to the need to balance individual growth and development with preparing students to participate collectively in civil society. Schools, colleges, and universities all proclaim the individual benefits of education in an attempt to improve and maintain student enrollment. Some would argue that the purpose of education and therefore of leadership is to promote individual growth; others would argue it is to socialize participants into an existing society and social order. In private good, education is seen as a means of acquiring a credential, a way of securing a better position, and as a “proving ground” for a market ideal rather than as a means of acquiring knowledge or of citizenship training. The chapter examines the ways in which policies, and for the purpose of illustration, discipline policies, may emphasize private factors to the exclusion of public influences.
