This is the time of the monthly attack, yet how
fun to be going through the attack with enols. Nevermind if you don't understand enols - it's for people with head damage to comprehend anyway.
So of course, I was Facebook-ing (technology has hence created new words in our urban vocabulary) and found this article my friend posted on her page as a link.
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - by William Deresiewicz
Read it, it is interesting. Even more so is when it is an article written by an elite himself, criticizing the downsides of the very system that created him.
Then again, the flaws in the education system which he highlighted are but, in my humble opinion, within the same package you get from a meritocratic system. And this trend as he mentioned is not only apparent in the US - as of now, it is being replicated all around the world. I should think this is an inevitable result of, one, the pressure of a globalized "Knowledge Enterprise" economy; and two, a meritocratic education system.
As long as you want both, you will, after a few generations of students, observe the emergence of elite schools and from them, the trend that was mentioned in the article.
See, even in the US this is happening. What more of our system, right?
