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hierarchy

C1Academic AWL-7
UK /ˈhaɪərɑːki/US /ˈhaɪərɑːrki/
noun

a system, especially in a society or an organization, in which people are organized into different levels of importance from highest to lowest

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Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
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(Laughter) But something strikes you when you move to America and travel around the world: every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects.

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pretty flat hierarchy, everybody had a roughly similar cube, and anyone could talk to anyone.

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