Educational policy and discussion, in Britain and the USA, are
increasingly dominated by the confused ideology of egalitarianism.
David E. Cooper begins by identifying the principles hidden among
the confusions, and argues that these necessarily conflict with the
ideal of educational excellence - in which conflict it is this
ideal that must be preserved. He goes on to criticize the use of
education as a tool for promoting wider social equality, focussing
especially on the muddles surrounding 'equal opportunities',
'social mix' and 'reverse discrimination'. Further chapters
criticize the 'new egalitarianism' favoured, on epistemological
grounds, by various sociologists of knowledge in recent years and
'cultural egalitarianism' according to which standard criteria of
educational value merely reflect parochial and economic interests.
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