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• Teacher ed: Dump the American dream

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 600
  Future teachers will be required to repudiate the American dream — “the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits” == at University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus, writes Katherine Kersten in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. According to a ...
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• Merit and the marketplace, free choice etc

  
  Aristotle The Geek — Authority: 119
  Horwitz has an article on the “myth of merit” - In his various chapters and essays on the “mirage” of the concept “social justice,” F. A. Hayek makes a claim that is very often overlooked by those who support the market. He argues that markets generally do not reward “merit.” That is, the people who ...
  1 week ago

• Defining Merit

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 509
  What should be the goals and responsibilities of a great university? Should it strive to maximize the future contributions of its graduates to humanity? Or should the university define its interests more narrowly, in terms of institutional prestige, social cachet and financial wealth? Below are more excerpts from ...
  1 week ago

• JAZZ MERITOCRACY. GONE?

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  No, it’s not a Jimmie Lunceford original.  But I just read a newspaper profile by Rachel Swan devoted to the drummer Donald Bailey (whose work I know from recordings he made with Jimmie Rowles) where he spoke about being a young player in Philadelphia.  These words leaped out at me (italics mine): Bailey ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moral Dilemma (4): Unequal Human Beings

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 479
  Another post in our blog series on moral dilemmas. It’s perfectly normal for people to feel more sorry about the death of a famous nobel peace price laureate than about a dictator. Although on some level, we cherish the equality of human beings and their equal worth, in practice we value people and their lives on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Highlights from an interview with the co-founder of Motley Fool

  
  Wikinomics — Authority: 122
  I recently wrote up a detailed case study on the Motley Fool Caps community for clients our nGenera Insight research programs, using the lens of “prosumerism.” I’ve talked about prosumerism here many times before, but it basically centres on customer co-creation. I like to use a play on the famous JFK quote to ...
  4 weeks ago

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