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...school system geared primarily toward accomodating the status quo, academically gifted children have always been a thorn in the side of educational policy makers. If educators support funding for academic programs tailored to gifted students, they perpetuate the unjustified, though in most cases understandable, stigma of elitism surrounding such programs and risk alienating the parents of less talented children. Conversely, if national policy makers neglect gifted children at the expense of the majority, those who have the money go to private schools, while those who cannot, become bored, unchallenged, and fall through the cracks of the school system...
...what he is now: a courageous dissenter, exposing the lies that oppression and privilege dress up in. If Lieber and Baumgartner had been born in the Eastern bloc, it is likely that they would have become exactly what they are in the West: complacent, privileged defenders of the status quo...
...think it is necessarily the case that each racial or social or economic group in the United States is going to be like each other group. That I think is wrong, and that I think, is another mistake of affirmative action. Affirmative action freezes the status quo: it makes it seem that the professors which are the most highly prized and the ones which Black has been excluded from, are the ones which they should want the most...
...experience reflected both the limitations and the strengths of liberalism in the period. The attempt at reform was genuine, but the execution was conventional and doomed to failure Kennedy's most idealistic programs, shepherded through Congress by Lyndon Johnson in the mid-'60s, couldn't overcome the status quo...
...other theory accepts this view but embraces it So what if the sharpest mind makes the best living warding off anti-trust complaints? Society, through the market, has decided it values this the most. In the circular logic of pure capitalism, "utility has been optimized" in the status quo because it is, well, the status quo. Both views unfairly denigrate the ideals of our generation and wrongly reject the possibility of change...