I deliberately chose not to use this as one of my chosen excerpts, though I don’t think it reveals a weakness in anything Pritchett believes — I read him as a skeptic about these “rights” who nevertheless acknowledges that other people would rather talk about rights than economic return in discussions of education. But whether he believes in the concept or not, your objection to the concept seems correct to me.
I deliberately chose not to use this as one of my chosen excerpts, though I don’t think it reveals a weakness in anything Pritchett believes — I read him as a skeptic about these “rights” who nevertheless acknowledges that other people would rather talk about rights than economic return in discussions of education. But whether he believes in the concept or not, your objection to the concept seems correct to me.