members of the professions disproportionately belong to the same socio-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！
