I like your point. Are you saying that the credentials of expertise have been inflated? While expertise itself remains valuable?The public lost its faith in people with the title 'expert' rather than experts as such...those who impart ideas that work, express themselves clearly and are able to make reliable predictions get just as much kudos as ever.
There has been an overproduction of experts, in line with the overproduction of graduates.
I suppose part of this theory revolves around how to implement a smart system that can hold accountable those that work in/on it.I've worked in the civil service. I'd characterise it as individually fairly bright people (for the most part) working within a system that's often quite stupid - and bureaucratic, but that goes without saying.
We have the latter in this country and it's turning our kids into miserable neurotic wrecks.Don't many countries try to do this: find the brightest students and turn them into civil servants and/or politicians eg. France and the Ecole Normale Superieure and China's hyper-competitive exam system?
Perhaps the noocratic model can only really work when there is a means by which the masses can hold the intelligent accountable, but again I'm not sure. I can't even attest to how well any of this stuff has been implemented.Don't many countries try to do this: find the brightest students and turn them into civil servants and/or politicians eg. France and the Ecole Normale Superieure and China's hyper-competitive exam system?
Finland has the best education in the world and they do hardly any testing at all.