Daisy Christodoulou

British educationalist

  1. If you take the most industrious and hardest-working and most ambitious youths of your country, and in their most productive years of their life, teach them things that are wrong or just not that useful, what is going to happen is there will be other countries who take the same t…
    Daisy Christodoulou · EconTalk · Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou) · 2026-09-07
  2. I compare the champions of mental discipline to Egyptian priests who planted rows of dead sticks which, for disciplinary purposes, they watered regularly. Had they planted corn, they would have got the same discipline and something more.
    Daisy Christodoulou · EconTalk · Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou) · 2026-09-07
  3. Whatever be the languages, whatever be the sciences, which it is in any age or country the fashion to teach, the persons who become the greatest proficient in those languages and those sciences will generally be the flower of the youth, the most acute, the most industrious, the m…
    Daisy Christodoulou · EconTalk · Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou) · 2026-09-07