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Excellence.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Hauraki Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (135 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786256171
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE-EQUAL AND UNEQUAL -- CHAPTER I-THE DECLINE OF HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE -- You Can Keep a Good Man Down -- The Stubborn Vitality of Nephewism -- CHAPTER II-EQUALITY AND COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE -- All Shall Equal Be -- Let the Best Man Win -- CHAPTER III-THE THREE-WAY CONTEST -- PART TWO-TALENT -- CHAPTER IV-THE GREAT TALENT HUNT -- The Demand for High-Talent Manpower -- Vestiges of Stratification -- The Market for Talent -- CHAPTER V-THE IDENTIFICATION OF TALENT -- CHAPTER VI-FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT TALENT -- PART THREE-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES -- CHAPTER VII-EDUCATION AS A SORTING-OUT PROCESS -- The Rigors of Sorting Out -- The Hazards of Mediocrity -- CHAPTER VIII-COLLEGE AND THE ALTERNATIVES -- Who Should Go to College -- The Need for Institutional Diversity -- Opportunities Other Than College -- CHAPTER IX-MOTIVATION -- Who Cares? -- Challenge and Response -- The Mysteries of Individual Motivation -- PART FOUR-THE INGREDIENTS OF A SOLUTION -- CHAPTER X-THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA -- The Paradox in Democracy -- The Rise of the Meritocracy -- Where Does Wisdom Lie? -- CHAPTER XI-TALENT AND LEADERSHIP -- The Idea of a Natural Aristocracy -- Talent and Responsibility -- Leadership in a Free Society -- CHAPTER XII-THE IDEA OF EXCELLENCE -- The Many Kinds of Excellence -- Toning Up the Whole Society -- CHAPTER XIII-THE IDEAL OF INDIVIDUAL FULFILLMENT -- The Person One Could Be -- Waste on a Massive Scale: -- CHAPTER XIV-THE AIMS OF A FREE PEOPLE -- CHAPTER XV-THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is a book about excellence, more particularly about the conditions under which excellence is possible in our kind of society; but it is also--inevitably--a book about equality, about the kinds of equality that can and must be honored, and the kinds that cannot be forced.

Such a book must raise some questions which Americans have shown little inclination to discuss rationally.

What are the characteristic difficulties a democracy encounters in pursuing excellence? Is there a way out of these difficulties?

How equal do we want to be? How equal can we be?

What do we mean when we say, "Let the best man win"? Can an equalitarian society tolerate winners?

Are we overproducing highly educated people? How much talent can the society absorb? Does society owe a living to talent? Does talent invariably have a chance to exhibit itself in our society?

Does every young American have a "right" to a college education?

Are we headed toward domination by an intellectual elite?

Is it possible for a people to achieve excellence if they don't believe in anything? Have the American people lost their sense of purpose and the drive which would make it possible for them to achieve excellence?

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE-EQUAL AND UNEQUAL -- CHAPTER I-THE DECLINE OF HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE -- You Can Keep a Good Man Down -- The Stubborn Vitality of Nephewism -- CHAPTER II-EQUALITY AND COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE -- All Shall Equal Be -- Let the Best Man Win -- CHAPTER III-THE THREE-WAY CONTEST -- PART TWO-TALENT -- CHAPTER IV-THE GREAT TALENT HUNT -- The Demand for High-Talent Manpower -- Vestiges of Stratification -- The Market for Talent -- CHAPTER V-THE IDENTIFICATION OF TALENT -- CHAPTER VI-FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT TALENT -- PART THREE-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES -- CHAPTER VII-EDUCATION AS A SORTING-OUT PROCESS -- The Rigors of Sorting Out -- The Hazards of Mediocrity -- CHAPTER VIII-COLLEGE AND THE ALTERNATIVES -- Who Should Go to College -- The Need for Institutional Diversity -- Opportunities Other Than College -- CHAPTER IX-MOTIVATION -- Who Cares? -- Challenge and Response -- The Mysteries of Individual Motivation -- PART FOUR-THE INGREDIENTS OF A SOLUTION -- CHAPTER X-THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA -- The Paradox in Democracy -- The Rise of the Meritocracy -- Where Does Wisdom Lie? -- CHAPTER XI-TALENT AND LEADERSHIP -- The Idea of a Natural Aristocracy -- Talent and Responsibility -- Leadership in a Free Society -- CHAPTER XII-THE IDEA OF EXCELLENCE -- The Many Kinds of Excellence -- Toning Up the Whole Society -- CHAPTER XIII-THE IDEAL OF INDIVIDUAL FULFILLMENT -- The Person One Could Be -- Waste on a Massive Scale: -- CHAPTER XIV-THE AIMS OF A FREE PEOPLE -- CHAPTER XV-THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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