The Meritocracy Myth | Report

Running head: MYTH OF MERITOCRACY
The Meritocracy Myth
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April 02, 2020

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Abstract
Research has proven that meritocracy is a great weapon to success and achieving greater heights
in the future. Experts have also discovered that meritocracy myth has done damage to the system
of education in Australia. For example, since the beginning, education has always been said to be
a great equalizer. However, in the recent century, meritocracy myth as an equalizer has become a
story of the past owing to the rise of the modern meritocracy.

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Abstract............................................................................................................................................2
The Meritocracy Myth.....................................................................................................................4
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Meritocracy as a myth in an education system................................................................................4
A myth that meritocracy ensures opportunities........................................................................5
In Australia, meritocracy has led to dismantling democracy and revamping standards..........5
The myth of meritocracy reward..............................................................................................6
Education is not the society great equalizer.............................................................................6
Meritocracy has become hereditary.........................................................................................7
Success and luck/good fortune and the myth of Meritocracy..................................................7
Recommendation and conclusion....................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9