Debate on Merit vs. Demographics in Education

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Uh, well, if I still dis- still agree with it.

Do we want the mixture of students who are going to be trained to do

advanced medical research to be representative of the

demographic makeup of the population as a whole?

Or do we want

students with the highest probability of finding cures for

cancer and Alzheimer's?

Do you want airline pilots chosen for

demographic representation of various groups?

Or would you prefer to fly with pilots who are chosen for their

mastery of all the complex things that increase your

chances of arriving safely at your destination?

Consequences matter or should matter more than

some attractive or fashionable theory.

More fundamentally, do we want a society in

which some babies are

born into the world as heirs of prepackaged

grievances against other babies born the same day,

blighting both their lives? Or do we want to at least leave

them the option to work things out better in their lives

than we have in ours?

Thomas Sowell, author of some 40 books, including

Social Justice Fallacies. Thank you.

Thank you.