Hidden Curricula
the abstraction called ‘education.’
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
I often ask myself how much my years of professional expertise and track record of success mean in the shadow of a white person’s opinion?
John Graham • Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security
The first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect to class, these schools are largely—indeed increasingly—homo... See more
William Deresiewicz • The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
Why do we want to help those who are already successful more than those who really need it?
If you have little career capital or are struggling, chances are your friends/network aren’t that interested in helping you or even being associated with you (because of your relative status). And if you have observable career capital, people want to be in yo
... See morethink that what we were being taught was less a body of knowledge than a way to be in the world: orderly, organized, attentive to direction. There is nothing wrong with developing those skills—in fact, I’ve learned the hard way how useful they can be. What is wrong is their fetishization, the way they were allowed to outrank the actual body of know
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