members of the professions disproportionately belong to the samesocio-economic groups and share similar educational backgrounds. In the United Kingdom, for example, 75 per cent of senior judges and 43 per cent of barristers went to independent or fee-paying schools (which educate only 7 per cent of schoolchildren).Almost half of newspaper columnists went to Oxford or Cambridge.In 2011, among undergraduates accepted for medical school, 57 per cent were from the highest three socio-economic groups, and 7 per cent were from the lowest three.In a sense, the professions are like a club, admittance to which is permitted only to a select few.
我我收入不高,我儿上public school,是不是就没前途了!