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SuperPeopleandUnderPeople 3 - 03 Oct 2011 - Main.DevinMcDougall
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Food for thought from the NYT. It's a powerful point about equity. But, note the implicit assumption of a zero-sum game, that investment of "intellectual capital" at top schools means underinvestment at less prestigious schools. In a zero marginal cost world, however, at least with respect to knowledge, that proposition is false: if we write once, we can read everywhere.
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>		My reference to food for thought was to the broader article, not specifically the Hirsch quotation embedded. That Hirsch's evaluation is wrong or incomplete, I think, does not alter the broader reality that educational opportunities in America are unequally distributed.

With respect to the broader article, I wasn't endorsing it wholesale; I was making a similar critique as the one you've made about the zero marginal cost of knowledge distribution: "But, note the implicit assumption of a zero-sum game, that investment of "intellectual capital" at top schools means underinvestment at less prestigious schools. In a zero marginal cost world, however, at least with respect to knowledge, that proposition is false: if we write once, we can read everywhere."

-- DevinMcDougall - 03 Oct 2011

 
 
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