ABSTRACT
Education system is a publicly financed one, a decentralized liberal structure which has emerged from the good intentions of educationalists and governments. Its character cannot be understood outside its peculiar political economy. Just liberalism is a specifically 'western' phenomenon so public-sectoral liberalism is very western too. Such liberalism is paradoxical in that it frequently generates ideas which are hostile to the market economy which alone can sustain the liberal polity on which in turn the liberal curriculum depends. There are two main ways out for a nationalized system which runs into popular disfavour. One is some version or other of internal reform. School dominates much of early lives. It is intolerable that the uncertainty which attends the economic as well as other aspects of human life should be compounded in the educational case by a perverse denial of information.
