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Serving students like Georgios is one of the things the Soviet Union did very well (of course, there was still discrimination against eg Jews). In the US, it’s
by opportune 3y ago
Serving students like Georgios is one of the things the Soviet Union did very well (of course, there was still discrimination against eg Jews).
In the US, it’s not only disrupted by the activists briefly mentioned in the article, but by the mediocre part of the elite that would rather have such a system not exist or be easily gamed/rigged than to have it exist and their child not in it. Given the more classist nature of life in the UK I’m sure this is even moreso a factor there.
- lapcat 3y ago> Serving students like Georgios is one of the things the Soviet Union did very well Philosophers? I think not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_in_the_Soviet_Union
- opportune 3y agoBy that I meant the gifted and advanced (Georgios surely had very advanced language skills), not philosophers specifically. I doubt he’d have been restricted from learning about the philosophical material he was interested in either, though depending on the year, definitely restricted from officially espousing some of that personally.
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- lapcat 3y agoOk, but Georgios himself would have been repressed in the Soviet Union. Likewise, anyone who had original, creative thoughts. You could only "excel" within the ruthless confines of ideological conformance. It's not clear that the Soviet system "served" anyone except the party leaders.
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