Direct Beschikbaar Excellent Sheep The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life – William Deresiewicz

This book is a groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be — but aren’t — providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People). As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a…