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PREVIEW: TALENT: #GENTRY: Excerpt from a conversation with author Adrian Wooldridge re his new book, THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT, how the 19th century moved from venerating landed gentry to venerating intellectual power -- and the challenging and fraught se

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

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PREVIEW: TALENT: #GENTRY: Excerpt from a conversation with author Adrian Wooldridge re his new book, THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT, how the 19th century moved from venerating landed gentry to venerating intellectual power -- and the challenging and fraught search for intellect in schooling and testing. More of this later.

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

1909 Oxford

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Conversation with the author Adrian Waldrich, his book The Aristocracy of Talent, is a

0:36.4

revelation of how we move from the landed gentry of thousands of years possessing the superiority of their land, not their superiority of their

0:49.7

intellect.

0:50.7

How do we move from that in the 19th century to talent? Talent on the basis of

0:56.6

intellectual power? How do you find those people? How can you make certain that

1:02.0

they are talented and not just capable of buying good

1:07.0

educations that test well?

1:09.4

Adrian Waldred, this is from a much longer conversation about the transformation of our search for

1:16.9

excellence certainly relevant today always how do you find talent How do you find talent? How do you reward talent? How do you keep talent?

1:27.0

Adrian Wolrich.

1:29.0

How do you discover this intellectual ability and how do you make sure that you're rewarding real, raw,

1:35.6

native talent rather than just being well educated? Because obviously people who come from

1:41.2

wealthy backgrounds can buy better educations for themselves.

1:45.0

So what happens, for example, to explore this tension a little bit more, is in the middle of the 19th century,

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