The two stances that each of the above need to be applied to:.
Education = Commodity; makes it a level playing ground, tradable, no one has more access.
Education = Public Good; benefit of the whole community, should be freely available.
2a : of, relating to, or affecting all the people or the whole area of a nation or state b : of or relating to a government c : of, relating to, or being in the service of the community or nation.
3 a : of or relating to people in general.
(http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary; Merriam-Webster online dictionary).
3 a : something that has economic utility or satisfies an economic want b plural : personal property having intrinsic value but usually excluding money, securities, and negotiable instruments c plural : CLOTH d plural : something manufactured or produced for sale : WARES, MERCHANDISE e plural, British : FREIGHT.
(http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary; Merriam-Webster online dictionary).
Intro.
Commodity.
- Impact on Maori.
- Impact on Pacific Nations.
- Impact on education levels.
- Impact on gender issues.
- Philosophical Impacts.
Public Good.
- Impact on Maori.
- Impact on Pacific Nations.
- Impact on education levels.
- Impact on gender issues.
- Philosophical Impacts.
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Should education be a public good or a commodity? Firstly, it would depend on how each of the terms, public good and commodity are viewed.
"Public" as defined in The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary as "of, relating to, or affecting all the people or the whole area of a nation or state", whereas good, in its intended sense, is defined as "something that has economic utility or satisfies an economic want". The collaboration of these two words into a phrase would therefore be: something that has economic utility, or satisfies and economic want, that relates to or affects the people of a whole area, nation or state.
Public goods, as defined by Biz/Ed online are items which can be jointly consumed by many consumers simultaneously without any loss in quantity or quality of provision.
