It’s true that much that we recognize as merit is not tested. (See the article by Walter Kirn in today’s NYTimes.) Schooling and testing right up to and on through the SATS is most of all a measure of one’s aptitude, one’s mental quickness, one’s readiness with and understanding of words and numbers, and in [...]
Archive for the ‘Virtue can’t be taught’ category
Aptocracy
July 5, 2009Charles Murray and the teaching of virtue
December 26, 2008Charles Murray, in a series of op-ed pieces in the Wall Street Journal of last September, makes it clear that America is run by an elite, perhaps 10% or so of the population, and that for the most part the members of this elite, politicians, university professors, financial wizards, lawyers, doctors, scientists et al., have [...]
