ABSTRACT
An INUS condition is "an insufficient but necessary part of a condition which is itself unnecessary but sufficient for the result". An example of an INUS condition is a dropped cigarette that causes a house to burn down. A dropped cigarette is not the only way to burn a house down, and it will not necessarily burn a house down, but it can do so under the right circumstances. It is commonly held that America's system is so bad that any reform is worth a shot. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, for instance, sought to justify a push for school choice by stating that schools could not get any worse. The countries that seemed to struggle the most with the human capital model of education in this book were ones with great socio-economic imbalances and developed public school systems. Surprisingly, many of the visions of education people analyzed were organized around fear, austerity, standardization, and discipline.
