Word: egalitarians
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...egalitarian conception that everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential is a highly democratic and compassionate standard," says Marvin Bressler, professor of sociology and education specialist at Princeton University. True, not all U.S. collegians can match the performance of their foreign counterparts, but American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential. "America educates so many more people at university that one can't expect all those who go to be either as well informed or intelligent as the much narrower band who go to English universities...
...Eliot House didn't exist, some people would have to invent it" as a concept, he says. For critics of Eliot House, "it was a way to establish your own egalitarian legitimacy even though...once you got into Harvard you are no longer in an egalitarian setting...
...system had not been deeply flawed. Marxism-Leninism -- and socialism in general -- embodied the basic fallacy that people do their best work in a vast collective, rather than in free pursuit of their self-interest, and that government or bureaucrats can run an efficient, egalitarian economy...
...HAVE A FRIEND who keeps asking me to prove to him that Zionism isn't racism. He's not a liberal egalitarian who thinks every place should be open to everyone without restrictions, nor does he believe some oppressive power dynamic always exists between different ethnic groups...
...think they answer this question in the affirmative. Once they elaborate their expression and justification of the principle of personal worth, however, the conventional Harvard answer frightens me. In trying to ungroup people, they inevitably group individuals into arbitrary categories. Then, they invoke these categories to fashion an egalitarian society. The interests of the individuals they would equalize are pitted against one another instead of reconciled. This artificial reconstruction emasculates the worth of the individual, depriving the answer of any sound basis and of all concrete meaning...