Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Neville Buch

Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites

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Dear friends,

 

 

Thoughts?  A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology.  But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of meritocracy.

 

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

 

Thoughts?  A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology.
 

 

Can I tell the Premier that he does not have the staff in Education who understand what is going on, simply because those staff members do not have the “training” or qualifications in history, sociology, philosophy, and education theory and practice?

 

 

 

 

From David Brooks, “How the Ivy League Broke America. The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new,” The Atlantic, November 14, 2024, 6 AM ET, Gift Article, I pay for:

 

 

Six deadly sins of the meritocracy

 

 

1. The system overrates intelligence.
2. Success in school is not the same thing as success in life.
3. The game is rigged.
4. The meritocracy has created an American [-Australian] caste system.
5. The meritocracy has damaged the psyches of the American [-Australian] elite.
6. The meritocracy has provoked a populist backlash that is tearing society apart.
 

 

How to Replace the Current Meritocracy (from David Brooks)

 

 

 

1. find and train the people best equipped to be nuclear physicists and medical researchers. [why not the best persons from, in simpler, higher education since the ignorance in education got us into this mess?]

 

2. to humanize and improve meritocracy.

 

3. change how we define merit.

 

4. great faith in raw brainpower and naturally adopted a rationalist view of humans, but the rationalists assumed that whatever can’t be counted and measured doesn’t matter. But it does.

 

5. importance of noncognitive traits shows up everywhere.

 

 

 

Four crucial qualities of the Humanist Turn

 

 

1. Curiosity.

 

2. A sense of drive and mission.

 

3. Social intelligence.

 

4. Agility. [“intellectual agility”]

 

 

 

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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