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T.S. Eliot’s Praise for Privilege | Episode XVI

New Humanists

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The Basics of Education

This would restrict education to what will lead to success in the world, he says. It's basically maritocracy via examinations. Education is the creation of in alet filled with teachers, pets,. whoever can fill out the bubbles, the best will become the elite. We've never seen anything like that. Isn't this the pitch for pretty much every single college programme? And so then people are like, well, what is success? It means going to work for, you know, goldman sacks, no. That would never happen. Ha, ha. Look out.

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