Lost in the Meritocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost in the Meritocracy write by Walter Kirn. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Lost in the Meritocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back—or within.
Lost in the Meritocracy
Lost in the Meritocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost in the Meritocracy write by Walter Kirn. This book was released on 2009-05-19. Lost in the Meritocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back—or within.
Lost in the Meritocracy
Lost in the Meritocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost in the Meritocracy write by Walter Kirn. This book was released on 2009. Lost in the Meritocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the author's trip through American higher education, where standardized tests, class rankings and gamesmanship stand in the way of true intellectual fulfillment, revealing the psychic costs of the American educational system.
Twilight of the Elites
Twilight of the Elites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twilight of the Elites write by Christopher Hayes. This book was released on 2012. Twilight of the Elites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to corporate America and Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to unprecedented levels of corruption and failure. 75,000 first printing.
The Meritocracy Trap
The Meritocracy Trap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Meritocracy Trap write by Daniel Markovits. This book was released on 2020-09-08. The Meritocracy Trap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.
