Education is not material Goods

Frank Furedi usually makes me fume with his complacent recycling of his latest book, but I like his argument today in spiked! that redistributionist policy around education is a load of balls.

We have come under New Labour to think that education is a limited pool of material entitlement like income supplement, to be redistributed progressively like phone access or child benefit. Of course it has to be equitable. But you start from the point that learning is a personal and vital entitlement, like health, which you can't take from one to give to another.

How would we react to a policy: Health divide to be addressed by moving doctors from the SE to the NW ? Nurses to be allocated by postcode ? Thanks Frank