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- Publication Year
- 2014
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- Excellent Sheep : the Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
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- Simon & Schuster
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- 256 Pages
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A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be--but aren't--providing. As a professor at Yale, Bill 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. 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 and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways. Deresiewicz explains how college should be a time for self-discovery, when students can establish their own values and measures of success, so they can forge their own path. He addresses parents, students, educators, and anyone who's interested in the direction of American society, featuring quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and clearly presenting solutions.
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Simon & Schuster
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1476702713
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9781476702711
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Publication Name
Excellent Sheep : the Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
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"[A] good case that these colleges are failing in their most essential mission: to help kids "build a self.", Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood . . . it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the heart, making meaning of experience and finding an organizing purpose that you build a unique individual self. . . . [Deresiewicz] reminds us what a moral education looks like. That is largely abandoned ground., William Deresiewicz is one of America's best young public intellectuals. He has written a passionate, deeply informed, and searing critique of the way we are educating our young. Whether you agree or disagree - and I found myself doing both - you must read this book. It should spark a great debate on America's campuses and beyond., Not only does Deresiewicz speak with candor about the ins and outs of the educational hierarchy from an insiders point of view, but he prompts some serious questions about the potential for reform and what we as parents can do to encourage our children from a young age to change the way that they're learning, and as a result, what they take from the world in exchange. A much recommended read, especially for those currently with or planning to have children., Excellent Sheep is likely to make…a lasting mark…for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent 24 years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale….He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: 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., It might surprise the countless students competing for admission to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford that they could be fighting for a dubious prize. But in this probing indictment, a former Yale professor accuses America's top universities of turning young people into tunnel-visioned careerists, adept at padding their rsums and filling their bank accounts but unprepared to confront life's most important questions. . . . An urgent summons to a long-overdue debate over what universities do and how they do it., Deresiewicz's critique of America's most celebrated schools as temples of mercenary mediocrity is lucid, sharp-edged, and searching ... he poses vital questions about what college teaches-and why., A sharp analysis of the dark side of the lot of a high-achieving student being groomed for a place in America's meritocracy., Welcome to what is sure to be the most polarizing education and parenting book since Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom ., Deresiewicz's critique of America's most celebrated schools as temples of mercenary mediocrity is lucid, sharp-edged, and searching … he poses vital questions about what college teaches-and why., Deresiewicz' central observation that Ivy League students lack purpose should resonate in our Ivy ears. His harrowing characterization of the modern elite student as 'anxious, timid and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose' is honestly not that far from the truth. Deresiewicz exhaustively criticizes the institutions for their lack of true diversity and inability to engage student's 'souls'., Not only does Deresiewicz speak with candor about the ins and outs of the educational hierarchy from an insider's point of view, but he prompts some serious questions about the potential for reform and what we as parents can do to encourage our children from a young age to change the way that they're learning, and as a result, what they take from the world in exchange. A much recommended read, especially for those currently with or planning to have children., "Deresiewicz's book is a brilliant and devastating critique of America's higher education system - especially its highly-selective "elite." Anyone considering college today should read it with close attention.", "Deresiewicz's book is a brilliant and devastating critique of America's higher education system - especially its highly-selective "elite." Anyone considering college today should read it with close attention.", The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those 'sheep'), pushy parents and admissions mayhem., Excellent Sheep challenges parents to break from the herd mentality, to question what we really want from our children, who we really want them to be. The book filled me with both hope that there could be a more authentic, creative way to raise a new generation of thinkers--and with the courage to try to find it., "This refreshingly barbed indictment of America's prestige-education addiction reveals what college students are really getting out of all that work, all that struggle, all that stress and all those tuition loans.", This refreshingly barbed indictment of America's prestige-education addiction reveals what college students are really getting out of all that work, all that struggle, all that stress - and all those tuition loans., In Excellent Sheep, William Deresiewicz sets out to unnerve the current and future college students of America (and their parents). He succeeds brilliantly, with an indictment of elite education that should launch a thousand conversations. Read this book to remember what learning should be, and then pass it along to the next sheep who should leave the flock behind., Deresiewicz's critique of America's most celebrated schools as temples of mercenary mediocrity is lucid, sharp-edged, and searching ... he poses vital questions about what college teaches--and why., [Deresiewicz] has written a polemic against the transactional values of American elite education, the helicopter parents and early-admissions frenzy that annually feed overachieving teenagers into the elite colleges and universities., William Deresiewicz's Excellent Sheep is a searing and important critique of our morally bankrupt educational system. He argues, correctly, that colleges and universities, awash in corporate money and intend on churning out corporate managers and conformists rather than scholars, have betrayed not only their mission, but the students they purport to teach and by extension the wider society. Independent thought is subversive, uncomfortable and lonely. It requires us, as Deresiewicz points out, to challenge and question reigning assumptions rather than kneel before them. Deresiewicz's book is not so much a call for reform as for revolt., "This refreshingly barbed indictment of America's prestige-education addiction reveals what college students are really getting out of all that work, all that struggle, all that stress - and all those tuition loans.", Excellent Sheep is likely to make...a lasting mark...for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent 24 years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale....He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: 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., Excellent Sheep challenges parents to break from the herd mentality, to question what we really want from our children, who we really want them to be. The book filled me with both hope that there could be a more authentic, creative way to raise a new generation of thinkers--and with the courage to try to find it., This is a book of great importance to our society. It deserves to transform our understanding of integrity and achievement and success. William Deresiewicz is a genuine humanist with a profound faith in the promise of democracy, and he has an uncommon gift for wisdom without platitudes. Excellent Sheep is a withering analysis of the transactional spirit that rules American education and American life, and an inspiring example of a better ideal. A true teacher speaks here. He has my admiration and my gratitude., In Excellent Sheep , William Deresiewicz sets out to unnerve the current and future college students of America (and their parents). He succeeds brilliantly, with an indictment of elite education that should launch a thousand conversations. Read this book to remember what learning should be, and then pass it along to the next sheep who should leave the flock behind., William Deresiewicz's book is in and of itself a higher education, and to read it is to learn what's a college for. The author is an inspired teacher, and his lesson is of a truth sorely needing to be told., "Deresiewicz's book is a brilliant and devastating critique of America's higher education system especially its highly-selective "elite." Anyone considering college today should read it with close attention.", [I]t's hard not to agree with the forest of [Deresiewicz's] argument, that when it comes to selecting, educating, and sending our elite into the world to do what they will do, something is seriously messed up., "Welcome to what is sure to be the most polarizing education and parenting book since Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom .", Some of the solutions he offers will doubtless provoke parents currently shelling out thousands of dollars for SAT tutors., It might surprise the countless students competing for admission to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford that they could be fighting for a dubious prize. But in this probing indictment, a former Yale professor accuses America's top universities of turning young people into tunnel-visioned careerists, adept at padding their résumés and filling their bank accounts but unprepared to confront life's most important questions. . . . An urgent summons to a long-overdue debate over what universities do and how they do it., Anyone interested in higher education would benefit from reading this hard-hitting and passionate book.
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Educational Psychology, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, General, Higher, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
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2014-010790
Dewey Decimal
378.73
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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Education, Social Science, Philosophy
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