"Progressives": Keep people down by pretending to help as they help themselves

" It is assumed to be more advantageous for a student who would have readily been accepted at, say, NC State to instead go to Duke, thanks to a preference. That assumption, I maintain, is usually mistaken. Rather than somehow making the country more socially just or at least helping the preferred student to better succeed, class preferences are apt to harm the students. Bigger, more prestigious schools do not necessarily give them a better education; often it’s the reverse. Also, “prestige” schools often have an inferior (and sometimes downright terrible) learning environment. That’s perhaps the main lesson of the recent book Paying for the Party.

“Progressives” take pleasure in thinking they can redesign society and improve upon laissez-faire. They’re almost always mistaken, and certainly so when it comes to shuffling students around to different colleges"

http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/352097/say-no-class-based-affirmative-action-george-leef