#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit
Within Reason
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The Purposes of University
The purposes of the university are in part to encourage, cultivate, honor, promote and reward scholarly excellence. But I also think one of the purposes of university is a civic purpose: cultivating leadership for a pluralist society. So would strong study habits and work habits be a part of the character that leads to that may be in part? "I wouldn't fixate on effort and work ethic alone," he says.
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