EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy

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EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy

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Apr 19, 2024

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The biggest division in modern society is between the meritocracy and the people, the cognitive elite and the masses, the exam-passers and the exam-flunkers. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Image: Caricature of a Cambridge University library in the Georgian era. Credit: Thomas Rowlandson / Alamy Stock Photo

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Apr 19, 2024

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EI Weekly Listen — Adrian Wooldridge on meritocracy

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