History of Meritocracy
We can trace origins back to Ancient China, and it gradually matured in the background ever since. However, we have not seen any full-fledged meritocratic ideologies until very recently.
Key Evolutionary Events:
- Confucius’s administrative meritocracy (Ancient China)
- Qin and Han dynasties refine civil service examinations
- Plato writes “The Republic”
- Aristotle further develops Plato’s meritocratic concepts
- Voltaire and François Quesnay take the baton
- British Empire implements a meritocratic system
- John Stuart Mill takes the baton
- Singapore enshrines meritocracy as guiding principle
- The Ecuadorian Meritocracy Institute is created
- True Meritocracy goes online 2016