Suppose a day comes in your future when you need surgery on your eyes in order to preserve your sight. What sort of surgeon do you want to operate on you: so-so or excellent? You have common sense, so you hope for an excellent surgeon who got through medical school by thoroughly learning the material, not by some other criteria like a famous name or skin color.
Similar question: do you want a so-so pilot or an excellent one next time you fly with a commercial airline?
Of course you hope for excellent surgeons and pilots who earned their credentials by merit. You want them to deserve those credentials. You don't care what color their eyes or skin are. Up til now, that was simple common sense. A medical degree or pilot's license meant that the student earned it by doing the related work to an excellent standard.
Do they still mean that? In today's world, you might wonder. Because merit doesn't always result in the getting job or the college admission or the promotion.
from Hillsdale
(cont'd tomorrow)
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