The trouble is that what is deemed a "suitable" education is arbitrary.
Physiotherapists and occupational therapists testified to variations in the suitability of their education, the arbitrary nature of experience at work and inconsistent exposure to experienced colleagues.
Gramsci saw that differentiated forms of education based on arbitrary tests of rote-learned knowledge was an essential tool in the establishment of the ideological hegemony of rulers in a class-based society.
Any classification of agencies and institutions involved in adult education must necessarily be arbitrary, given the great variety found not only among nations but within single nations.
The notion that algebra would ever be useful seemed fishy, but the grownups insisted: education, no matter how apparently arbitrary, leads to jobs.
An in-depth investigation by The Houston Chronicle revealed that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) set an arbitrary 8.5percentt benchmark for inclusion in special education programs beginning in 2004.
According to the Houston Chronicle, tens of thousands of children have been denied the education they need because of this arbitrary limit.
