meritocracy

As a small nation without natural resources, Singapore relies on education and meritocracy to develop its economy.

In Markovits’s telling, the rise of the meritocracy is a story of unintended consequences.

Its faculty has also been a factory of books taking differing positions on the merits and demerits of meritocracy and elite education.

If such a thing as meritocracy existed, it would be gone within a generation.

Meritocracy is a fairy tale.

Men like him prove the existence of all manner of privilege while disproving meritocracy.