{"id":983,"date":"2020-12-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:40:54","slug":"a-swollen-number-of-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Swollen Number of Candidates&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>T.S. Eliot, writing about 72 years ago, presciently observes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8230;the ideal of a uniform system [of education] such that no one capable of receiving higher education could fail to get it, leads imperceptibly to the education of too many people, and consequently to the lowering of standards to whatever this swollen number of candidates is able to reach. <br><br><strong>&#8211; Notes Toward the Definition of Culture<\/strong> (as cited in <em>The Great Tradition<\/em>, ed. Richard M. Gamble, p. 621<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.S. Eliot, writing about 72 years ago, presciently observes: &#8230;the ideal of a uniform system [of education] such that no one capable of receiving higher education could fail to get it, leads imperceptibly to the education of too many people, and consequently to the lowering of standards to whatever this swollen number of candidates is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgenloe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}