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Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
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meritocracy
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Chinua Achebe |
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Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
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equality
meritocracy
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Harper Lee |
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"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."
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birthright
aristocracy
meritocracy
nobility
talent
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Ayn Rand |
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The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.
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meritocracy
stratification
middle-class
culture
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Charles Murray |