*** Alexander then begins an explanation of the way that inequality becomes ensconced. “See,” he says, “the parents of rich children have the money to get into better schools. Then, after a while, they begin to say, ‘Well, I have this. Why not keep it for my children?’ In other words, it locks them into the idea of always having something more. After that, these things - the extra things they have - are seen like an inheritance. They feel it’s theirs and they don’t understand why we should question it. “See, that’s where the trouble starts. They get used to what they have. They think it’s theirs by rights because they had it from the start. So it leaves those children with a legacy of greed. I don’t think most people understand this.” *** By

Excerpted from the book Savage Inequalities 

The Savage Inequalities of Public Education in New York by Jonathan Kozol