[lit-ideas] Re: RR and EF
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 02:03:11 +0100
Monday, June 7, 2004, 1:33:37 AM, Scribe1865@xxxxxxx wrote:
Sac> In a message dated 6/6/2004 4:40:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Sac> straker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Sac> Orwellian hero ...
Sac> Anyone read _The Rise of the Meritocracy_ by Michael Young? Quite a funny
Sac> send-up of a "utopia" designed around standardized test scores.
Tnis is about Michael Young, including discussion of _The Rise of the
Meritocracy_ (1958)
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl16110.htm
and
slate>Michael Young, the British sociologist whose 1958 satire, The
slate>Rise of the Meritocracy, offered an astonishingly prescient
slate>critique of how the cult of IQ measurement would create a
slate>dangerously smug ruling class and a profoundly demoralized
slate>lower class,
from
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060739
and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,514207,00.html
Sac> The unreliable narrator is actually convinced that multiple
Sac> academic degrees and high test scores indicate ability to
Sac> create and lead, and that in a world where people are judged by
Sac> these factors, the high scorers will produce excellent .
-- Best regards, Judy mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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