Equality and Equity in Education
“Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.” ― Ha-Joon Chang Equity and Equality are the two terms which are supposed to be used by people synonymously but both the terms are different from each other. Equity means to provide resources to individuals according to their need so they become successful in their lives whereas equality means distribution of resources in equal manner or every individual must be given equal opportunity to develop his innate talent and abilities. Equality implies that before the...