교육의 본래 목적과 공정성의 입장에서 본 대학입시의 문제

Abstract

A college admission system has a important meaning especially in South Korea, where a lot hangs on school prestige. However, the present system neither satisfies the least ethical standard of our society nor achieves any educational aim. Its sole function is to select student candidates for the upper class. As the result of that, most Koreans have complaints about the present college admission system and many alternatives have been suggested. For example, neoliberal educational reformers propose the alternative which includes admissions based on monetary contributions, high-school rankings, and entrance exams by a college. Conversely, egalitarians propose the opposite one, which adopts an education equalization system. However, the neoliberal alternative may violate students' right to equality and egalitarian one is supposed to lack social plausibility. In this article, I try to suggest a new eclectic alternative, which emphasizes duties of a college and the high school records under the idea of fairness, by which I mean equality of opportunity, equality of condition, and bilateral obligation between students and colleges.