Excellent Sheep

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

Autor: William Deresiewicz

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Simon & Schuster

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As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, so...

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Autor

William Deresiewicz

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2015

Stránek

256

EAN

9781476702728

ISBN

1476702721

Enbook ID

09240839

Vydavatel

Simon & Schuster

Hmotnost

224

Rozměry

141 x 214 x 18

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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 counsellors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw first-hand 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, says Deresiewicz, that college be a time for self-discovery, when students can establish their own values and measures of success in order to forge their own paths. He features quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and offering clear solutions on how to fix it. "Excellent Sheep is likely to make...a lasting mark...He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America. ..Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness" (The New York Times).

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