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The political correctness that has plagued Mr Summers is just one example of a deeper problem: America's growing inclination to abandon the very principles that have made it a world leader.Ross Douthat has recently created a stir with his exposé of Ivy League education, "Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class".
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While arguments of respectability are rampant and viral, we have unfortunate reminders how little class, wealth and education privileges mean to Black bodies.
The worst fix is to use crude quotas, equating private education with privilege.
7) Making university education the privilege of the rich is not egalitarian.
It is patently, absurdly, preposterously obvious that an education without privilege does not preclude an appreciation of "difficult" literature.
But those things are part of the reason that I am not in your position: my confidence, my education, my privilege.
It had never crossed my mind that Australia might consider itself classless, since, like east coast America, it has preserved the institutions of birth, education and privilege rather more intact than Magdalen College, Oxford.
These are people who learn that noble public do-gooding does not always translate into praiseworthy behavior at home, that hard work, education and privilege do not automatically translate into security or a sense of safety.
Some institutions are said to take foreigners with weak qualifications because they can charge them more which irks well-heeled British parents who would happily pay more for a place at a mainstream university.In a country where education and privilege remain neurotically intertwined, that option is politically impossible.
Since World War II the U.S. college population has risen sevenfold, to 15 million, converting higher education — a privilege only 15% of the U.S. population enjoyed before WWII — into a $200 billion industry serving the masses.
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