"When you see another media report or education 'expert' discussing how important it is that we recruit our 'best and brightest' to teaching," says Gillian Light, "consider what attributes being the 'best and brightest' might entail." It's a good point. She is focusing specifically on whether we should allow "ATAR (Year 12) score of those applying to teacher education courses" to define "best and brightest" (it shouldn't) but I think this is something we should think about more broadly. I'm not happy with simple referents as "best" and "brightest" at all, because they presuppose there are people would designate as such. But of course, the "best of us" is often "the least of us", and often has a lot more to do with attitude and effort than test scores.
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