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Meritocratic education ruins children

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Meritocracy II: The credentialism & technocratic rat race

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In Meritocracy is not a good thing, I began a critical examination of the premises inherent in our modern system of ‘meritocracy’.

Meritocracy is a concept which initially appears unassailable; should not the person who merits the reward receive it? And yet, as my friend

Nate Fischer
recently pointed out in conversation with
Auron MacIntyre
, this naive definition is tautological …

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