John Rawls 'Class Matters, Why Won' T We Admit It?

John Rawls is one of the most important political philosophers of the late 20th century. He took an old idea, thought of a new way of using it, and came up with principles for a just society. The idea of the original position in which parties ratify principles that will assign the basic structure of the society they live in. This choice is made from behind a veil of ignorance. The veil of ignorance withholds stereotyped information about their participants such as his or her ethnicity, social status, and gender. In this paper, I will disagree with philosopher John Rawls claim of the original position toward greater social justice in making college education free, my essay will support the fees for a college education. These are reasons why

This will cause a negative affect to school funding. Classes will be overwhelmingly filled with students, as author Helen Ladd Edward puts it in her article, Class Matters, Why Won't We Admit it?, she says, “performance has shown that many of the success stories have been limited to particular grades or subjects and may be attributable to substantial outside financing or extraordinarily long working hours on the part of teachers.”(web). To support her statement this will cause the professors to demand more pay for the abundance of students in their classes, causing teacher strikes across the nation and this would mean more taxes on the rich. Making them angry and resentful to those in lower class society causing a more divided social class, discrimination, and possible class

If the least advantaged person is unharmed by offering free college education to more advantaged people, and the more advantaged people benefit, then Rawls’s principle backs it. Rawls is a strong believer in equality among its people, he realized that inequality resulted from inherited characteristics, social class, personal motivation and even luck. He said that in a just society we should give fair equality of opportunity and reduce inequality in areas providing the best jobs in private business or public employment. Regardless of whether college training is truly needed for an individual to enter the job force. Rawls would say that as long as the rich provides the lower class with a better education they will be better off than they were before they had the opportunity. The veil of ignorance will create motivation to the least advantaged people to leave their recent scenario. So if we think in Rawlsian terms, then if offering free college education to all would help the least advantage more than offering free college education only to the least advantage, than the Rawlsian principle supports that for