The Neoliberal Form of Human Capital and its Impact on the Right to Education

Abstract

The relationship between economics and education generates profound effects of social inequality. The historical development of the link between human capital and education encourages inhabitants from the 21st century to learn. This is fine, as it contributes to human development; however, the socioeconomic conditions of countries like Colombia, which weave their progress under the theory of human capital, resulting from transnational policies, are not given to favor the right to education. The latter —guarantor of a form of ambivalent social emancipation, since it increases the coercion disguised as freedom and social justice—promotes the emancipation of poverty at the cost of an unequal and mostly null purchasing power.