The Cult Of Smart by Fredrik deBoer
How Our Broken Education System Creates a Culture of Inequality
This book challenges the common belief that intelligence is a fixed, individual trait and argues that the “cult” of innate smartness drives harmful education and social policies; it traces how meritocratic ideology and high-stakes testing amplify inequality, stigmatize many students, and divert attention from structural causes of academic differences. Combining analysis of education research, genetics debates, and social class dynamics, it calls for policies that stop sorting children by perceived ability and instead expand universally supportive schools, vocational opportunities, and economic measures that treat non-college paths with dignity and reduce inequality.
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- 2019
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