Monday, June 11, 2012

From Harlow Unger's `How To Pick A Perfect Private School'--Part 3:

In his 1999 book, How To Pick A Perfect Private School, Harlow Unger indicated how the preppie graduates of the U.S. power elite’s private school system undemocratically occupy a disproportionate number of leadership positions within U.S. society:

“…Although students from private schools represent only 12 percent of all school children in the United States, they fill 40 percent of the seats at the most selective…colleges. As they become adults, they fill a disproportionately large number of leadership positions in business, finance and government as during their higher education. More than 10 percent of the chief executives of America’s 1,000 largest corporations, for example, graduated from just four universities—Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford…”

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