Quality matters, and much of the evidence suggests that while developing countries are encouraging and fostering meritocracy, their Western rivals are increasingly approaching academe with an egalitarian flare — more access (of course, with the benefit of widening educational opportunity) even if at the expense of quality.
From How the West was Lost, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, page 92, ISBN 0374173257
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