The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz

http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/

Food for thought:

The kid who’s loading up on AP courses junior year or editing three campus publications while double-majoring, the kid whom everyone wants at their college or law school but no one wants in their classroom, the kid who doesn’t have a minute to breathe, let alone think, will soon be running a corporation or an institution or a government. She will have many achievements but little experience, great success but no vision. The disadvantage of an elite education is that it’s given us the elite we have, and the elite we’re going to have.

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