It is a required school subject from the primary grades on up, although only children who go beyond those grades, and especially those who attend elite schools, gain significant competence in the language.
As a result, accounts about political decentralization, the inadequacy of rigid hierarchical structures and the compromised competence of the elite, appear regularly in the public discourse.
Pavin pointed out to me that it's not just the elite who question Prayuth's competence.
It is well known that major attributes of successful elite strains, such as saprophytic competence, adaptation to stressful conditions and nodulation competitiveness must be expressed when free-living.
By presenting us with a glamorous, murderous protagonist (inherited wealth, elite schooling, gym‑hewn body, expensive clothes, competence in the financial world), Bret Easton Ellis rejects the norm.
The effect of the financial crisis was to undermine faith and trust in the competence of the governing elites.
Of course, the advertisement of such elite practices requires individual qualities such as competence, know-how, generosity, effectiveness, trustworthiness, modesty, compassion, etc., synergistic qualities that can build up to different levels from one individual to the next.
A literate society is also dependent upon the development of elite literacy i.e., a high level of literate competence, possessed by a relatively small percentage of the population, in such specialized fields of endeavour as science, law, or literature.
They eschew ideology and attack problems with reasoned analysis and logic; construct policy within firmly defined, "realistic" parameters; favor efficiency over principle; define leadership as managerial competence; and value brokering consensus among elite stakeholders over delivering tangible benefits to constituents.
Painting and calligraphy, like poetry, were the domain of the elite, and most educated Chinese traditionally boasted of some competence in them.
However, they also cited evidence for a negative effect with the potential of elite sports deterring individual participation because of a perceived competence gap.
