Anyone can join an Ivy League school though. Thousands join every year. Not just anyone can join the nobility.
Sure some of those are legacies, but many are not as well. Every Harvard class has nobodies from nowhere.
You just don’t see the same mobility in other systems. England likes their story about random boys drawing swords from stones and becoming kings, but that just doesn’t happen. Sure maybe our system is not 100% egalitarian, but it’s an improvement I think.
Sure some of those are legacies, but many are not as well. Every Harvard class has nobodies from nowhere.
You just don’t see the same mobility in other systems. England likes their story about random boys drawing swords from stones and becoming kings, but that just doesn’t happen. Sure maybe our system is not 100% egalitarian, but it’s an improvement I think.