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Top 9 You Yenn Teo Quotes (2025 Update)

You Yenn Teo Quote: “Inequality, in fact, is a logical outcome of meritocracy. What the education system does when it selects, sorts, and hierarchizes, and when it gives its stamp of approval to those ‘at the top,’ is that it renders those who succeed through the system as legitimately deserving. Left implicit is that those at the bottom have failed to be deserving.”

1. “Inequality, in fact, is a logical outcome of meritocracy. What the education system does when it selects, sorts, and hierarchizes, and when it gives its stamp of approval to those ‘at the top,’ is that it renders those who succeed through the system as legitimately deserving. Left implicit is that those at the bottom have failed to be deserving.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “The respect I am accorded are conditional on my participation in society as an economically productive and relatively wealthy person. It has little to do with my inherent right to respect as a human being and member of this society.”

2. “The respect I am accorded are conditional on my participation in society as an economically productive and relatively wealthy person. It has little to do with my inherent right to respect as a human being and member of this society.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “Mobility and immobility are at once spatial and temporal – they are about movement through places and also changes over time.”

3. “Mobility and immobility are at once spatial and temporal – they are about movement through places and also changes over time.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “We make meaning through our everyday lives – in small activities and through relationships. These are moments of potential beauty. They are the acts that make us human.”

4. “We make meaning through our everyday lives – in small activities and through relationships. These are moments of potential beauty. They are the acts that make us human.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “Our national discourse emphasizes sacrifice, community, greater good. Our institutions, our everyday lives – they regulate and compel individualism, competition, self-centeredness.”

5. “Our national discourse emphasizes sacrifice, community, greater good. Our institutions, our everyday lives – they regulate and compel individualism, competition, self-centeredness.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “It is disingenuous to claim that all tracks are good and all paths valued; if this were the case, and if Singaporeans actually believe this, tuition centers would be out of business.”

6. “It is disingenuous to claim that all tracks are good and all paths valued; if this were the case, and if Singaporeans actually believe this, tuition centers would be out of business.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “There is insufficient attention to the fact that reward and punishment systems are not neutral. Not all qualities, skills, and capacities are equally valued in our society. Inadequate thought is given to the ways in which some of us set the standards against which others are measured.”

7. “There is insufficient attention to the fact that reward and punishment systems are not neutral. Not all qualities, skills, and capacities are equally valued in our society. Inadequate thought is given to the ways in which some of us set the standards against which others are measured.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are – shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are rendered meaningful by shared scripts and narratives that permeate our society.”

8. “What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are – shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are rendered meaningful by shared scripts and narratives that permeate our society.”

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You Yenn Teo Quote: “Low-income parents do not necessarily make more ‘bad choices’ than parents with higher income, but more of their practices turn out to have negative outcomes. It is more accurate to say that they have bad options for managing the need for money and the need of their kids for care.”

9. “Low-income parents do not necessarily make more ‘bad choices’ than parents with higher income, but more of their practices turn out to have negative outcomes. It is more accurate to say that they have bad options for managing the need for money and the need of their kids for care.”

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