What we need, instead, is a system of education that is public, universal, reparative, and free. By public I mean funded by public dollars, not by tuition or by debt. By universal, I mean a space for everyone at every stage of life, where all subjects can be explored. By reparative, I mean an education system designed to acknowledge and actively redress past and ongoing social inequalities. By free, I mean in both price and purpose: education must be free in cost and aimed at freedom by unbinding curiosity. Should these conditions be met, education could actually be the motor of equality,
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