An international elite of scholars, among whom the most distinguished were the Anglo-Saxon Alcuin, the Visigoth Theodulf of Orléans, and the Italians Paulinus of Aquileia and Paul the Deacon, produced a body of lyric, epic, and didactic poetry (both sacred and secular, both religious and political) unmatched in the earlier period.
Again, it's a tale of murderous rivalry in Korean school corridors: by having bookworm-that-turns June (David Lee) take an elite group of scholars hostage, writer-director Su-won Shin presumably intends to put a ruthlessly competitive system on trial.
While there is an elite class of scholars, carefully selected by the priests and approved by the syphogrants, who dedicate themselves to full-time study and are available to hold the higher offices, the lectures provided for them are equally open to all comers.
By the Eastern Han period, local elites of unattached scholars, teachers, students, and government officials began to identify themselves as members of a larger, nationwide gentry class with shared values and a commitment to mainstream scholarship.
That requires the whims and fancies of elites, the research of scholars and the confidence of little dictators; or perhaps just a society with more blind confidence in itself.
They became the local elite of their communities, while scholar-officials relied upon them for maintaining order and fulfilling various duties under their jurisdiction.
A closely supervised $14,000 program run by Elite Scholars of China accepted 26 out of 100 applicants who attended a two-week academic course at Wellesley College in Massachusetts followed by a week of visits to a dozen top colleges and their admissions officers.
"There's a crisis of trust", says Tomer Rothschild, an American who co-founded Elite Scholars of China, a Beijing-based tutoring company.
At first, the absence of elite architecture led scholars to assume that Old Europe had little or no hierarchical power structure.
Conversely, shopkeepers, artisans, city guards, entertainers, laborers, and wealthy merchants lived in the county and provincial centers along with the Chinese gentry a small, elite community of educated scholars and scholar-officials.
This would be in keeping with the tradition of Hasidism, which itself began as a populist effort to wrest Judaism from the grip of an elite group of Talmudic scholars.
