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I use the Platonic definition: the best people by character balanced with intelligence.

This makes sense to me.

What you are thinking of (IMHO) is the Inner Party made in our society by achievement in memorization err I mean education:

https://www.amerika.org/politics/bobos-in-paradise-the-new-upper-class-and-how-they-got-there-by-david-brooks/