The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
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The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
The author never met anybody who would trade our social order for theirs, who wants to go back to that old Princeton world. And yet ... and yet there are disturbing ghosts around the campus. The old order haunts this one, and whispers that maybe something was lost as well as gained when we sacrificed all for the sake of high achievement, safety, an... See more
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