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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. All men are equal. What does the egalitarian mean by the preceding slogan?
Answer:
The egalitarian means in the slogan, all men are equal that men are not the same
descriptively, but they ought to be treated the same, in the same way because men have
different needs among others.

2. What is the relationship between justice and equality in social implication?
Answer:
The application of equal needs the principle of justice. It will not be equal when we
treats different people in the same way because each person has his/her needs and lives
in their different circumstance. Take the workers in vineyard as the example. Those who
came late received different wages to those who came since the day break. This is called
justice.
Also in education, we cannot treat some different students with the same way because
they have different needs, abilities, interest, and circumstances.

3. What does equal opportunity means for children in accessing education goods?
Answer;
Children have equal opportunity to access schools in which they will study and learn,
or to choose teachers with whom they will study or learn. This means every child in this
world has the same opportunity to access education even the government should support
them.

4. Why do children have to be given strict interpretation of equal in accessing achievement
in education?
Answer:
Children have to be given strict interpretation of equal in accessing achievement in
education because the education goods, schools and teachers, are different in quality.
Therefore, children have to understand that to access the education needs, they do not
have equal way since the schools and the teachers that they want to access must be
match to their needs and achievement.

5. What does freedom basically means?
Answer:
Freedom basically means not being impeded or being let alone to do what one wants to
do.

6. What are the roles of education to give freedom for human?
Answer:
Human has freedom to do what they want to freely, but there are some things hindering
them to access them, they are human shortcoming, physical, mental, financial, and
social. The role of education in fact is to increase human’s skills to overcome their

44 PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION MPBI-STKIP PGRI SIDOARJO BATCH 4&6 2020