CHALLENGING THE DEI SCHOOL : 2/8: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge

Mar 11, 12:17 AM

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CHALLENGING THE DEI SCHOOL : 2/8: 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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