Posted by sigismund on September 8, 2013, at 16:54:39
In reply to Re: how psychiatrists use 'crazy', posted by Sebastian Flyte on September 8, 2013, at 5:10:22
>3. I believe that the use of grades and extracurriculars in elite uni admissions decisions as opposed to tests only, as the rest of the world does it, results in an American elite which is very pushy and relatively dumb.
That hasn't stopped them in the 50 years I have been watching. I'm not sure of the causality, from grades and admissions to the pushy and dumb. I figured it was from the post WWII decision to occupy a particular place in the world. America is more provincial than I expected.
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