A meritocracy must have two purposes.
The first is to allow each individual to hope for a social rise to match their talents.
Our system no longer fulfills this objective: pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds struggle to reach the best places in higher education.
To remedy this, the current solutions unfortunately undermine the second goal of meritocracy, which is to hand over the most difficult tasks to the most capable.
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Surgeons are expected to be as good as possible;
Can we imagine lowering their level to make recruitment more egalitarian?
However, this is the principle of the current reforms of the grandes écoles, where less demanding access routes are introduced for scholarship holders.
Not to mention the condescension of this solution, rejected by the interested parties themselves (according to a study, 70% of scholarship preparation students refuse the idea of a bonus in the competition), it lowers the level of the elites and does not resolve the
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