Is Education a Right or Business?

From my experience, conservatives view education as a business- they see education as a service, with customers and providers, with a service that can be improved, resources to be managed, and customers to be responsible too. They seek to increase the role the market plays in education- schools-of-choice and the foundation-grant, for example.

Liberals believe that education is a right, and is given by the government to everyone, equally, and has neither customers to answer to or employees to manage. They see education as just is- a magical hole into which to throw money and expect nothing out of it.