How can schools ensure that students have
equality of opportunity without requiring that they all pursue the same goals?
It is unrealistic to talk of
equality of opportunity without taking drastic measures to make high - quality education generally available to those who can profit from it.
Not exact matches
I think given equal
opportunities there will be a natural inclination for many towards traditional roles and that this is healthy, has nothing to do with any artificial social construct but is natural and comes out
of biology and now might be the time to be having open discussions about this kind
of thing
without having to face the fear
of being labelled misogynistic for doing so or with feeling fearful
of any threat to
equality.
«9 In order to ensure the
equality of opportunity («not equal wealth, but equal chances to wealth «10) that is essential in a democracy, he proposed to abolish inheritance, for he saw that
without that measure all talk
of equality of opportunity is essentially hollow.
Communitarianism, in my experience, has much more to do with controlling individuals and fixing «norms» - norms that are often bound to «patriotism» or «Britishness», in our cases, both
of which are primordial notions that we are best off
without - than it does
equality,
opportunity and filling moral vacuums.
It's something which would probably happen automatically as a result
of one
of my manifesto proposals (a requirement that laws must be consistent, where possible, with uncontroversial principles such as
equality of opportunity) but it's the kind
of thing that a properly functioning system would do automatically,
without requiring the general public to agitate about it.
But
without also engaging the more fundamental ideas
of learning,
equality, and real
opportunities for students, the battle itself is meaningless and, even worse, unjust.
Chicago - Kent College
of Law
of the Illinois Institute
of Technology provides
equality of opportunity in legal education for all persons, including faculty and employees, with respect to hiring, continuation, promotion and tenure, applicants for admission, enrolled students, and alumni,
without discrimination on the ground
of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.