QUOTE: Matthew Yglesias makes a good point about class stratification in higher education:
"The deeper reality is, however, that there's relatively little an institution like Harvard can do at this point to eliminate the intense class stratification in higher education. Making it easier for students from low-income backgrounds to pay the bills is worth doing, of course, but the number of people who were truly unable to pay under the old system (which offers a lot of aid, along with subsidized loans, and easy access to employment) is simply way too small to account for the fact that 74 percent of students come from households making over $80,000. The culprit is that, as John Edwards could tell you, we have two (it might be more accurate to say three or four, but that would make for a worse speech) primary and secondary education systems in this country, and even the richest university can't undo this on the back-end."
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that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
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