Every now and then, a reminder of how egalitarianism is bad is in order.
Let us take education as an example. What classically happened is that aristocratic boys had tutors to teach them, in order to have a more complete culture possible that would help them fulfill their duty as aristocrats.
Peasants did not need that kind of education for what they were called to do, neither did the burghers, because they had an art or a trade to bring on from master to apprentice, even reading or writing was not necessary for their aim.
The rise of universities opened a crack in this system, creating a sort of intellectual class that would later rise to defy the consolidated powers in the name of humanism and anthropocentrism, driving away the traditional Medieval society from theocentrism and the universal powers.
Later on, when Liberalism became dominant in the West, the burghers began asking for education for all, and as a consequence exceptional individuals became rarer and rarer. Aristocrats, artists and scholars at large became drowned in massification.
When you have to give everybody the same level of education, then you need to stoop at the lowest common denominator, so you have mediocrity as a result. That is how the wings of the exceptional individuals are clipped.
Let us take education as an example. What classically happened is that aristocratic boys had tutors to teach them, in order to have a more complete culture possible that would help them fulfill their duty as aristocrats.
Peasants did not need that kind of education for what they were called to do, neither did the burghers, because they had an art or a trade to bring on from master to apprentice, even reading or writing was not necessary for their aim.
The rise of universities opened a crack in this system, creating a sort of intellectual class that would later rise to defy the consolidated powers in the name of humanism and anthropocentrism, driving away the traditional Medieval society from theocentrism and the universal powers.
Later on, when Liberalism became dominant in the West, the burghers began asking for education for all, and as a consequence exceptional individuals became rarer and rarer. Aristocrats, artists and scholars at large became drowned in massification.
When you have to give everybody the same level of education, then you need to stoop at the lowest common denominator, so you have mediocrity as a result. That is how the wings of the exceptional individuals are clipped.