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I don't understand why you keep saying this.  I think there is a consensus by many of us that universal testing is good.  What ISN'T good is selecting by peer groups.  What is wrong with selecting the best and brightest student?[/quote]

When you say "best and brightest student", what do you mean, exactly? How would you go about identifying the "best and brightest" students?

And then, of course, there's the fact that the original "best and brightest" are the people who got the US into the Vietnam War because they were convinced that they were right and everyone else was wrong. After all, why listen to the worse and dimmer, when you're the best and brightest?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest[/quote]

I think using wikipedia for this stuff is quite a stretch.  It's not even a legitimate source of reference.[/quote]

It's the Wikipedia entry for David Halberstam's book The Best And The Brightest. If you don't like Wikipedia, read the book yourself. Or how about Victor Navasky's review of the book in the New York Times in November 1972?

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/15/home/halberstam-best.html?mcubz=0[/quote]

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