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- Objectstaat
- PublishedOn
- 2015-06-04
- ISBN
- 9781476702728
- EAN
- 9781476702728
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Excellent Sheep : the Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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, 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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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1476702721
ISBN-13
9781476702728
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208819318
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Excellent Sheep : the Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
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La227.4
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"[A] good case that these colleges are failing in their most essential mission: to help kids "build a self.", 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., "Welcome to what is sure to be the most polarizing education and parenting book since Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom .", 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., Welcome to what is sure to be the most polarizing education and parenting book since Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom .
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Educational Psychology, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, General, Higher, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Lccn
2014-010790
Dewey Decimal
378.73
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Education, Social Science, Philosophy
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