Reply to Meritocracy

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Meritocracy "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In an ever changing diverse and fluid world, why are some fighting for rigidly and narrowly defined merit achievements?

[b]What is a true achievement anyway?[/b]

How can we differentiate talent from cogs in the machine?[/quote]

In sports, it's usually pretty obvious - which is why sports are so popular.
In academics, I'd say getting all the questions right on a hard math test shows merit -- I mean just look at the curve in the class scores.  This can't be a serious question?
[/quote]

It is a serious question.

In sports it’s clear, if you take performance enhancers it’s cheating.

In school is nebulous. You take performance enhancers in the form of test prep and other services, and it’s considered hard work. [/quote]

serious answer.

-In Sports, you practice every day for a race or game. That is considered hard work. 
-In Academics, you study and practice every day for a test or a course. That is considered hard work.

-In Sports, it is cheating to take drugs or give the athlete a head start of 10 minutes.
- In Academics, it is affirmative action to give a student a place in a college, course even with astounding poor grades and abilities, ahead of academically high performing students.  Everyone knows what it means.

[/quote]

Keep telling yourself that you’re better because you know the test questions.

There was a reason that colleges are moving away from said tests! Because people are cheating![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics