…Wooldridge calls for private schools to offer half their places to poorer students and advocates the creation of a “highly variegated” school system consisting of technical and art schools as well as academically selective ones. He also says we need a “moral revival” in our values to counteract our society’s obsessive celebration of intelligence. He points out that many members of the cognitive elite (such as bankers and journalists) are generally despised by the ordinary public, who revere the caring professions instead….
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Self-serving, dishonest, unethical, illegal, full-blown corruption fuels the System — publicly, right before our eyes. We’ve seen the headlines, the articles, the statistics — and seem to “sigh and turn away” as it has all become “normal.”
Here’s a list of past and current actions that would be less acceptable if only we labeled them as corrupt. You could add more. The longer the list, the greater the need for reform.
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