When they have reached mediocrity in a competitive age, they have had to do something about it or go out of business.
Although consensus politics was inherent in it, "in reality this degenerates into compromise and mediocrity".
At the moment it gives too high a premium for mere numbers and mediocrity.
Students from many continental countries come here to escape mediocrity at home.
Democracy has too often meant the triumph of mass thinking, mass behaviour and a rather dull level of mediocrity.
Institutions which do not change their structure as they grow run obvious risks of loss of personal contacts and mass mediocrity.
Is all this to be allowed to founder in a slough of impoverished mediocrity?
The fear of a controlled and a uniform mediocrity must be removed.
