have seen efforts to cancel honors courses or eliminate advanced tracks for high-achieving students at the K-12 level — all in the name of “equity.”
In Rand’s story, Howard Roark is a talented architect. His counterpart, Peter Keating, is an incompetent son of wealthy parents. Keating fails in nearly everything he attempts but is vaulted forward by those in power, including Toohey. “Laugh at Roark and hold Peter Keating as a great architect,” Toohey muses, “you’ve destroyed architecture. … Don’t set out to raze all shrines — you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity — and the shrines are razed.