And what the state provides is less and less education, and more and more a form of rough and ready crowd control, usually shaped
by egalitarian principles, and calculated to prevent the emergence of an educated middle class.
Mujica was motivated by his deep commitment to
the egalitarian principles of a democratic republic.
The failure of the leaders of that society to take seriously that tremendous responsibility, or not to fulfill it adequately, literally invites the alienated people of the society to overturn it and impose
an egalitarian principle upon it.
By virtues, Goldin and Katz mean «a set of characteristics that originated in basic democratic and
egalitarian principles and that influenced the educational system.»
Unsurprisingly, these inconvenient facts rankle, and, for those wedded to a stringent version of
egalitarian principles, the goals of uplift and amelioration transmogrify into the demand for equal results.