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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:10 pm
by Yorkie
TullyBascombe wrote:The real question was about modern society and that those educated in private schools still dominate the professions in the UK. I really don't know about the US Congress. I can state with relative certainty that most physicians in the US were educatede in public universities. I don't really have any infornation about the legal/judicial professions. There are a lot of private law schools in the US, it costs a lot less per student to run a law school than it does to run a medical school. There are a lot of law schools in the US that are run out just a single small buiilding barely larger than an individual home.
All British universities (to my knowledge) are publicly funded - even Oxford and Cambridge (although they have vast private wealth as well).
However, to get to our top universities it helps to have been to a private school first - it's hard to get into Oxbridge from a state (i.e. public) school.
To be honest though, when a doctor is sticking a knife in my I just hope he's good at his job - I'm not too worried where he went to school
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:00 pm
by TullyBascombe
Yorkie wrote:TullyBascombe wrote:The real question was about modern society and that those educated in private schools still dominate the professions in the UK. I really don't know about the US Congress. I can state with relative certainty that most physicians in the US were educatede in public universities. I don't really have any infornation about the legal/judicial professions. There are a lot of private law schools in the US, it costs a lot less per student to run a law school than it does to run a medical school. There are a lot of law schools in the US that are run out just a single small buiilding barely larger than an individual home.
All British universities (to my knowledge) are publicly funded - even Oxford and Cambridge (although they have vast private wealth as well).
However, to get to our top universities it helps to have been to a private school first - it's hard to get into Oxbridge from a state (i.e. public) school.
To be honest though, when a doctor is sticking a knife in my I just hope he's good at his job - I'm not too worried where he went to school
The articke wasn't specific about whether it was referring to people educated at private high schools or private universities. I assumed they meant the later, but maybe they meant the former - that the majority of the UK's judges, lawyers, MPs, physicians, and scientists attended "private" primary and/or secondary schools. I don't know if there is any data about that for the US.