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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

By : William Deresiewicz

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Book Synopsis :

A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation?s top schools should be?but aren?t?providing: ?The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ?sheep?), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem? (People).As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation?s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale?s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to ?practical? subjects like economics, students are losing the ability to think independently. It is essential,

Book Detail :

Author : William Deresiewicz

Pages : 256 pages

Publisher : Free Press

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ISBN-10 : 1476702721

ISBN-13 : 9781476702728

 

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