In the early 1900s Rockefeller had already begun his program to open up schools and create scholarship programs to "harvest the geniuses." It was still largely "Aristocrat only," but there were exceptions by that time. By the 1930s, school admittance, for most schools anyways, had become pretty much a true meritocracy, though it still had aristocratic leanings, and it still does.
In the early 1900s Rockefeller had already begun his program to open up schools and create scholarship programs to "harvest the geniuses." It was still largely "Aristocrat only," but there were exceptions by that time. By the 1930s, school admittance, for most schools anyways, had become pretty much a true meritocracy, though it still had aristocratic leanings, and it still does.