CHALLENGING THE DEI SCHOOL : 7/8: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
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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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| 0:37.0 | Adrian Waldridge, the author of The aristocracy of talent, how meritocracy made the modern world. We're talking about the governance |
| 0:45.5 | that right now has made the world safe in a pandemic. We're talking about the governance that |
| 0:51.4 | hopes to restore the prosperity that existed before the |
| 0:54.5 | pandemic and where did it come from and is it to be trusted we've talked about |
| 0:59.8 | the left starting with doubts in the 1930s, but the right represented by two events in these |
| 1:07.4 | last years. |
| 1:08.9 | One is the Brexit vote in 2015, and the second is the election of a non-politician Donald Trump of |
| 1:16.2 | New York in 2016. This is the populist school and the populist school has doubts about meritocracy. |
| 1:25.0 | So Adrian, let's generalize first. |
| 1:28.0 | Populism doubts meritocracy because it's made up of experts, because it does not represent common sense. |
| 1:37.0 | Is that the same in the United Kingdom with the levers as it is with the Trump voters we're told in the United States. |
| 1:45.4 | Are these the same people? |
| 1:48.0 | Absolutely the same people. |
| 1:49.9 | So it's experts, so in Britain, one of the leaders of the Leave campaign, Michael Gove, said |
| 1:55.9 | we've had enough of experts, and the experts got very upset. |
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