Revisiting the right to education in light of the right to a decent living

The right to education has been recognised by international law as a human right. National constitutions take care of the operation of educational systems and the safeguarding of access to them for every citizen. It is considered that education is the main way to ameliorate the status of life and indispensable for every citizen to participate actively in political life. That is also the case of the Greek constitutional text, which contains an explicit prohibition of privatisation of the universities. The main purpose of the constitutional text regarding the right to education in conjunction with the right to a decent living, as it is argued in the paper, is to guarantee social mobility for all social classes.