Is management of schools by people who were successful in school a form of social darwinism?

[Boojatta]

[Dogmudgeon]

1. "Social Darwinism" is a metaphor, anyway

Evolution via Natural Selection requires reproduction.

If the job of school principals was to impregnate teachers, then it might be a little more authentically Darwinian.

--p!

[azurnoir]

2. Depends on the definition of success

does "success mean getting through the system with passing grades? Under that definition one can be a D student and still be a "success" and therefore still run today's schools, nope not Social Darwinism at all, however "legacy" students would be IMO a stunning example of SD.

[Boojatta]

3. Is the number of people who were D students and are now running schools

greater than the number of people who are now wealthy because they worked hard at minimum wage for many years?

[azurnoir]

4. All too likely there are Dstudents running schools

seeing as how no one gets wealthy working minimum wage jobs (unless they get really, really lucky at lotto)

edited to add: do you understand "legacy students" Bush was one, do you think he would have gotten into Harvard on his own merits?