EDUCATION: PARTICIPATORY READINESS

Danielle Allen, Education and Equality, with comments by Tommie Shelby, Marcel Suarez-Orozco, Michael Rebell, & Quiara Algeria Hudes (Chicago & London: U. of Chicago Press, 2016) ("The preparation of citizens through education for civic and political engagement supports the pursuit of political equality, but political equality, in turn, may well engender more egalitarian approaches to the economy. An education that prepares students for civic and political engagement brings into play the prospect of political contestation around issues of economic fairness. In other words, education can affect income inequality not merely by spreading technical skills and compressing the income distribution. It can even have an effect on income inequality by increasing a society's political competitiveness and thereby impacting, 'how technology evolves, how markets functions, and how the gains from various different economic arrangements are distributed'." Id. at 32, citing Ian Wei, Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2012).).