What culture and values get adopted by a meritocratic elite?

And, it says, "Among the so-called meritocratic elite, low teacher-to-child ratios are beloved.

The new meritocratic elite, through intermarriage and the inheritance of intelligence, becomes ever more coherent, powerful and impregnable.

It was the meritocratic elite - the mandarin class.

The first populist politician to build a national career around attacking the meritocratic elite was a man called George Wallace, who started a third party in the late 1960's.

Largely out of hostility to the meritocratic elite, the American public became hostile to government.

But unlike Mr. Stempel, Mr. Goodwin was making it into the meritocratic elite.

Both, too, project the manner of a new, meritocratic elite.

Socially disengaged meritocratic elites.

Beyond the lifestyle, $100,000 was a psychic achievement; it meant joining the meritocratic elite.