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Schools in liberal societies are responsible for producing liberal citizens. However, if they have too robust a view of citizenship, they may find themselves undermining the view of good lives held by many pacific and law abiding groups. Here I argue against treating citizenship as an educational good that simply trumps private values when they conflict and in favor of a view that seeks a context sensitive balance between such conflicting goods. The paper explores Rawls's distinction between two moral powers as a way of understanding the character of some of the private interests in schooling.
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Strike, K.A. Liberalism, Citizenship, and the Private Interest in Schooling. Studies in Philosophy and Education 17, 221–229 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005118509584
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005118509584