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The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
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William Deresiewicz • The Death of the Artist
“Solitude and Leadership,” William Deresiewicz
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now—older people as well as younger people—you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. ... See more
William Deresiewicz • Solitude and Leadership
