Politicalizzy Speaking Issue. 1

Scholar system
may become obsolete
Like China's imperial exam, Singapore's way of selecting top scholars will outlive its usefulness in a changed world. By Seah Chiang Nee.
Nov 27, 2005
http://littlespeck.com/content/

SINGAPORE'S early successes were built largely on the back of a scholarship system that - broadly speaking - followed imperial China as a way to recruit the 'best and brightest" to serve the country.

For 1,300 years of imperial examination history, China's emperors had selected 100,000 state-level and more than a million provincial scholars to administer the vast country.

Although the details differed, the objective of ancient China and 21st Century Singapore was similar - aimed at getting the best scholars who do well in education to help run the country............
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AS a citizen of Singapore, i would say damn, i'm pretty glad all the scholars are working for the bloody government because that leaves people like me to make all the money i want in the private sector.

I also rather doubt Singaporeans have any issue with the elitism. I mean, most of them already accept their lot as cookie cutter, petit-bourgeousies. And that spells wonders for the rest of us whom are fruitfully benefitting from their lack of interest and extreme dullness by shining in contrast.

So? Sue Machiavelli for coming up with these principles. The machinery will certainly collapse by itself one day, and one day you and I will be the mere collective in history books so it really doesnt matter.