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作者: Scruton, Roger

页数: 220

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The advantages conferred by education are to some extent transmissible across generations and even if not so transmissible, are inevitably bound to divide those who can obtain them from those who cannot. The example shows, incidentally, the absurdity of the aim of ‘equality of opportunity’. Such a thing seems to be neither possible nor desirable.1

For what opportunity does an unintelligent child have to partake of the advantages conferred by an institution which demands intelligence? His case is no different from that of a plain girl competing with a pretty girl for a position as model. The attempt to provide equality of opportunity, unless it is to involve massive compulsory surgery of an unthinkable kind, is simply a confused stumble in the dark.1 （原文）

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