Ferdinand Mount Quotes
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
Mount, Ferdinand. Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain. Short Books, 2004.
The cause of the inequality make a great difference in the role that society and community should play if it is desirable to reduce the inequality. If Muller is right, and more and more thinkers are tending to agree, then the solution lies in increased education and training as opposed to job development, anti-discrimination enforcement, and industrial development. See {634994} where Muller asserts the premise.
This was one of his great fundamental questions of mankind which his research began to answer.
In France, poor immigrants tended to be clustered into suburban neighborhoods where few jobs were available, the schools were inferior, recreational facilities were sparse, and there were few opportunities to mix with other French residents. Yet, similar correlations between geography and opportunity have existed in almost all parts of the world with the most obvious reflected in the massive worldwide migration to the cities from the rural areas and countryside which took place in the United States in the 20th century and most other nations in the latter part of that century and the beginning of the 21st. Chances in life have been and are very much determined by geography.
He was trying to get the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, FRSL, is a British writer, novelist, and columnist for The Sunday Times, as well as a political commentator.
