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

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner

I have also taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University. These institutions feed students, no matter how mediocre, the comforting reassurance that they are there because they are not only the best but they are entitled to the best. You saw this attitude on display in every word uttered by George W. Bush. Here was a