Do we have a right to higher education? A conversation between philosophers of education Harry Brighouse and Christopher Martin. 

• What is the point of higher education?
• Why is there a right to higher education?
• Should education be compulsory after 18?
• Should tuition be free?
• Plus: civic education, elite institutions, selection theatrics, and armchair sociology 

This is part of our series on the ethics of higher education.

Further reading:

• The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory by Christopher Martin
• Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since WWII by Martin Trow

Transcript

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Recorded remotely in July 2021.

Music is "We Know" by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive, used under a creative commons license.