SHOULD THE MORE HIGHLY EDUCATED GET MORE VOTES? EDUCATION, VOTING AND REPRESENTATION

This article examines the relation between education, voting and representation, and, in particular, argument that more highly educated people should have votes, as they be better at judging important political decisions. In past this issue attracted attention of great thinkers such Plato, Aristotle, Newman Mill. UK there is also a practical precedent, rarely recalled today, where for centuries university graduates had their own representatives Parliament. There are some interesting contemporary arguments on topic put forward favour an epistocracy (as call it) by social scientists, but not educators. It seems most educators would now dare to suggest might given largely grounds equity.