Anthony Jack, Harvard Sociologist explains the importance of accessible education and the collective public benefit of such an issue.
Jack is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students, and Paul Tough, author of The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, delivered the 2020-21 Wesson Lecture in Problems of Democracy.
Jennifer Morton, author of Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility, moderated the discussion.
Each year the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society brings to Stanford a notable scholar to deliver a set of lectures, endowed by the late Robert Wesson, a political scientist and Hoover Institute Fellow, pertaining to problems in democratic theory and practice. Dr. Wesson hoped that these lectures would help students, scholars, and community members think through important public issues related to democratic governance.
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8 дек 2020
