So inherited wealth ties in to quality of education eh? In which case you're saying that you'd prefer lesser educated people to be in positions of power?
I said nothing of the sort. What I *would* prefer is for education to be equally and realistically available to everyone, which it presently is not. Are you genuinely denying that there is a strong link between family wealth and quality of education? If so, you amaze me.
To take your point seriously for a moment, though - education alone is not the only or even the best measure of capability to do a job, especially a job like holding a public office. I am more interested in a person's competence than in their holding of qualifications which are unrelated to the post. Competence includes the ability to understand the needs and concerns of the people you're working for.
John Major is probably a very good example of a relatively less-well-educated politician and public office holder (though he was still better educated than many, despite much of his education being practical rather than academic), but I don't believe his education 20 years previously (or lack thereof) was a central aspect of his ability to run the country. While I won't pretend that I agreed with many of his policies, I still think he was a perfectly competent politician and Prime Minister.
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I said nothing of the sort. What I *would* prefer is for education to be equally and realistically available to everyone, which it presently is not. Are you genuinely denying that there is a strong link between family wealth and quality of education? If so, you amaze me.
To take your point seriously for a moment, though - education alone is not the only or even the best measure of capability to do a job, especially a job like holding a public office. I am more interested in a person's competence than in their holding of qualifications which are unrelated to the post. Competence includes the ability to understand the needs and concerns of the people you're working for.
John Major is probably a very good example of a relatively less-well-educated politician and public office holder (though he was still better educated than many, despite much of his education being practical rather than academic), but I don't believe his education 20 years previously (or lack thereof) was a central aspect of his ability to run the country. While I won't pretend that I agreed with many of his policies, I still think he was a perfectly competent politician and Prime Minister.