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James B. Conant and Henry/Harry Chauncey created the modern meritocracy through Harvard scholarship selection and standardized testing institutions such as ETS.
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"...individuals who create the meritocracy. The first is named James B. Conant. And he was president of Harvard for a couple of decades."
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"And he was the person who brought in the SAT in order to identify scholarship students. And he made Harvard into the best research..."
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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