Are Schools In England Socially Unjustified?

Are schools in England socially just? There are many different types of schools that exist, such as private schooling, payment by result schools, comprehensive/grammar schools, public schools and others. Many of these types of schools’ policies are socially unjustified. Education gives us all access to qualification in England. However there are still some people that get more than others, how is this fair? This could because of many things such as, girls have higher educational attainment than boys, this could be because of the large number of female teachers in primary schools. Or it could also be because the education is feminised. There are also many other different inequality in education, for example the educational attainments differs …show more content…
Utilitarianism, according to the oxford dictionary, means that ‘the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority’. In other words this means that an action is right if it promotes the greatest happiness of the greater number in society. It focuses more on the consequences, who is happy who is not, rather than the motive and basic nature of the action. To make the majority happy the minority will be suffering the consequences. Also the problem with this that all individuals have different ways and things that makes them happy, this will result in failing to account for the value placed on concepts such as justice and equality.
The main aims and purpose of utilitarianism is to achieve the highest number of happiness in society. Pleasure and harm is calculated by the mass . It is hard to calculate pleasure and harm correctly as all individuals have different things that make them happy, this shows that utilitarianism is not the best way to achieve equality. Utilitarianism is focused on the results rather than the rules. In utilitarianism individuals do not matter, as it’s the majorities that are counted for. Utilitarianism cannot protect the rights of minorities if the goal is the greatest good for the greatest …show more content…
The simplified version of this is that, the one who believes in free will. In education libertarianism is based on the development of intellectual abilities, as opposed to the attainment of professional employable skills. Hutchins (1953) has said that, “the object of an education system…. is not to produce hands for industry or to teach the young how to make a living. It is to produce responsible citizens”. This means that children should be increase their knowledge, in general, in schools rather than prepare for work. Schools are for the children’s own benefit rather than for them being a useful member of