Re:'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
by g9yuayon on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:29PM
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> Mao or Stalin might have been able to rid their countries of pathological cultural factors
Mao did rid of the meritocracy-based education system, replacing it with an identity-based system. That is, if you're born with the right identity (blue-collar worker, peasant (not farmer, mind you), and soldier), then you get to go to the university without even any test. If you're born with the wrong identity (the right, the counter revolutionary, and farmer or any family who has property, the "rich", the "bad"), then you can't go to any college. The results? Just look at the 70s. What a fucking hell hole.
As a for Stalin or Soviet, they never gave up their elite education. In fact, elite officers had to be elite students as well. Those who are good at STEM could even get a little leniency when they made the so-called political mistakes.
Mao did rid of the meritocracy-based education system, replacing it with an identity-based system. That is, if you're born with the right identity (blue-collar worker, peasant (not farmer, mind you), and soldier), then you get to go to the university without even any test. If you're born with the wrong identity (the right, the counter revolutionary, and farmer or any family who has property, the "rich", the "bad"), then you can't go to any college. The results? Just look at the 70s. What a fucking hell hole.
As a for Stalin or Soviet, they never gave up their elite education. In fact, elite officers had to be elite students as well. Those who are good at STEM could even get a little leniency when they made the so-called political mistakes.