From an equity perspective, this is just the tip of the iceberg, this system is, in many respects, an aristocracy posing as a meritocracy. Anthony Carnevale More Quotes by Anthony Carnevale More Quotes From Anthony Carnevale Everybody likes education as a way to allocate opportunity, because as Americans we all sort of agree education attaches to individual responsibility : You've got to take the test, go to the school, do the homework and so on, but in practice it has become another form of institutional race and class stratification. Anthony Carnevale politics