Honneth on student protests in general and in Chile in particular

“It is a duty of every state to nurture a well-informed public and for this reason all higher education should be free (kostenlos)…. Education (Bildung) should not be mere training (Ausbildung) for the marketplace, education should not be marketised so that only the rich can afford it and all students become burdened with unrepayable debt…. There is no reason not to support the spread of the student struggles we are witnessing in Chile and elsewhere.”

Full speech here (German with Spanish subtitles)

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