The Rhodes Scholar system is described as a secret-society-like network that selects imperial elites, bonds them at Oxford, and sends them to spread British power.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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"...British system, you might win a scholarship to go study at Oxford or Cambridge, okay? You even might become a Rhodes Scholar. So a..."
"is the very best in the world, you might become a Rhodes Scholar, and then you become part of the British Empire. Okay? And..."
"I like looking at portraits of people, so at Oxford, all our dining halls will have like all the famous alumni hanging or like..."
"...to explain how this connection works. There's a connection, you're at Oxford, and all these great people, these portraits are all around you, and..."
"remember where we are okay we've crossed the river oxford nicholas and we're in so the river of oscar sticks and we are now..."
"...guy was talking to they can't but they're all upper class Oxford kids. So they're like, Oh, yeah, it's just overblown thing. But England's..."
"...to the same schools they go to the same league schools Oxford uh Cambridge LSD they go to the same private schools they're all..."
"...education Institute institutions uh Harvard Yale Free League um also LSE Oxford Cambridge okay uh University of Paris so on so you have these..."
"...believe Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare because he didn't go to Oxford or Cambridge. Christopher Marlowe went to Oxford or Cambridge but not Shakespeare...."
"...know much more about history than these academics at Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, okay?"
"...years. The academy in Athens at that time is like Harvard, Oxford today. Right? It's where all the rich and powerful go to study...."
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