CHALLENGING THE DEI SCHOOL : 1/8: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge

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CHALLENGING THE DEI SCHOOL : 1/8: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge

https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World/dp/1510768610/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1658009977&refinements=p_27%3AAdrian+Wooldridge&s=books&sr=1-2

In The Aristocracy of Talent, the esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities, and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocratic system.

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0:54.0	the aristocracy of talent, how meritocracy made the modern world.
0:59.0	Good heavens, this sweeps over enormous a period of history from kingships
1:05.0	reaching back all the way to Plato and then right up to now
1:09.0	meridocrats is the word
1:11.0	it was invented in the 20th century but we begin with what is the the contest for finding why people are elevated and why people are not elevated in human history.
1:29.0	It goes like this, God bless the squire and his relations and keep us in our proper stations.
1:37.0	Adrian, good evening and thank you and congratulations.
1:41.0	That ditty for me is your book because the contest against that presumption
1:47.4	that there is such a thing as proper stations has informed arguments for well at least 2,500 years.
1:54.5	Let's begin with where you identify the hierarchical presumption of mankind.
2:01.5	How did it work and what was its genesis? What drove it Adrian? Good evening to you.
2:07.8	Thank you so much for inviting me and thank you for starting off with such a profound question because I think it's important to recognize that for most of human history
2:16.7	the assumptions that we now have about
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