Ability

Do you notice I deliberately omitted yesterday the possibility that most of our students are rich ? (I mean they come from affluent families.)

That may well be true.

Unfortunately, that's the even more worrying bit.

Let's consider: Who could get into a medical school ?

Creme de la creme, we hope.

In other words, if capability and intelligence are evenly distributed in a society, we should expect an equal proportion of our students coming from every social class.

But we do not.

Which means:

1. There is a substantial inequally in the chance of having reasonable education between children from different social classes (so that school children from poor families are less likely to obtain a good enough grade in public examination and get entrance to a medical school); or
2. children from rich families are preferentially selected, hopefully via formal rather than some backdoor procedures.

I shouldn't say any more.