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The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
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- With so many resources devoted to the business of elite academics and so many people scrambling for the limited space at the top of the ladder, it is worth asking what exactly it is you get in the end—what it is we all get, because the elite students of today, as their institutions never tire of reminding them, are the leaders of tomorrow.
from The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz by William Deresiewicz
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- The second disadvantage, implicit in what I’ve been saying, is that an elite education inculcates a false sense of self-worth. Getting to an elite college, being at an elite college, and going on from an elite college—all involve numerical rankings: SAT, GPA, GRE. You learn to think of yourself in terms of those numbers.
from The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz by William Deresiewicz
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