They may in fact be unapologetically grooming kids for Ivy League colleges, which are at least as much about hooking into the power elite as they are about getting a good education.
Here's a very interesting piece that speaks to this:
http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/ The first several paragraphs are rather dull, "educated people don't know how to talk to the plumber" kind of stuff, so I recommend starting at the 12th paragraph ("The political implications don't stop there . . .")
"Leadership," just as much as ability, is exactly the point at some of these universities, and at the feeder schools that start the culling process.
Here's an article today that unintentionally highlights some more of what your article discusses regarding the elite and their sense of entitlement:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/where-s-the-boss--trapped-in-a-meeting.htmlThe unacknowledged takeaways... CEOs report a 55-hour work week... poor them, right? 5 hours of that is "business lunch." For the ordinary worker, that's called "lunch," but the CEO takes it as a paid perk, a tax deduction, and alleged working hours which cannot be counted by the rest of the employees against the workday, no matter how many workers they eat lunch with, how often their lunch is interrupted by work concerns, or even how often their managers keep scheduling meetings with them over their normal lunch times. Another 20 hours is "travel, exercise, personal appointments, and other activities." In other words, "the things everyone else is expected to do outside of normal working hours."
This leaves these entitled beings only 30 actual working hours a week, consisting mostly of sitting in meetings where little of value is accomplished.
