Presented as a Harvard scholarship tool for identifying bright students and preserving Harvard’s institutional supremacy.
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Presented as a Harvard scholarship tool for identifying bright students and preserving Harvard’s institutional supremacy.
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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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"...people into its campus okay and this creates something called the sat okay this is the origin of the sat the std was founded..."
"Okay? And you can see how student debt, student loans, has gone way up. So in America, student loans, student debt, is the only..."
"And he was the person who brought in the SAT in order to identify scholarship students. And he made Harvard into the best research..."
"...we should have done is David Bromwich and I should have sat down together and had this conversation where I explained to him, like..."
"...of fundamental ideas and stories that everything they care about is sat upon. But I mean, you only, if you've read the book Sapiens..."
"...I think that's important and quite rare. So, you know, I've sat with Kamala Harris or Ivanka Trump or Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama,..."
"...how to respond to the Americans and Iraunalyn so they just sat back and wait to be attacked okay why don't Asian and Middle..."
"...and bowstring back back right from his soul just as he sat but aiming straight and true he let fly and never missing an..."
"...Now it stood there, looming. And round its bulk, the Trojans sat debating, clashing, days on end. Three plans split ranks, either to hack..."
"...was there. I studied English literature at Yale, and I actually sat in on a class of his. But he is considered the most..."
"...they discuss books that they read together okay um rather than sat word memorization i had them read books students were required to read..."
"...the States on Christmas Day in 1917. On 18th January, he sat for an interview with a representative of Dow Jones and published in..."
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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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