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Referenced in discussion about Chinese exam systems and civil service reforms. Mill discussed the Chinese exam system and system of government in this work, and later in the transcript it's mentioned he wrote about education funding without tyranny.

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Mentioned as a parody of the style of history education focused on kings, battles, and dates that was common in older exam papers.

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Referenced in discussion about elite overproduction and meritocracy. Described as a warning about creating an elite of meritocrats who believe they are morally superior because they earned their position through exams and hard work. Michael Young is noted as having coined the phrase 'meritocracy' and having written the 1945 Labour Manifesto.