Excellent Sheep The Miseducation of the America
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- 出版社 Free Press
- 出版时间 不详年
- ISBN 9781476702728
- 定价 177.60
内容简介
Agroundbreakingmanifestoaboutwhatournation’stopschoolsshouldbe—butaren’t—providing：“Theex-Yaleprofessoreffectivelyskewerselitecolleges，theirbrainybutsoullessstudents(those‘sheep’)，pushyparents，andadmissionsmayhem”(People).
AsaprofessoratYale，WilliamDeresiewiczsawsomethingthattroubledhimdeeply.Hisstudents，someofthenation’sbrightestminds，wereadriftwhenitcametothebigquestions：howtothinkcriticallyandcreativelyandhowtofindasenseofpurpose.Nowhearguesthatelitecollegesareturningoutconformistswithoutacompass.
ExcellentSheeptakesasharplookatthehigh-pressureconveyorbeltthatbeginswithparentsandcounselorswhodemandperfectgradesandculminatesintheskewedapplicationsDeresiewiczsawfirsthandasamemberofYale’sadmissionscommittee.Asschoolsshiftfocusfromthehumanitiesto“practical”subjectslikeeconomics，studentsarelosingtheabilitytothinkindependently.Itisessential，saysDeresiewicz，thatcollegebeatimeforself-discovery，whenstudentscanestablishtheirownvaluesandmeasuresofsuccessinordertoforgetheirownpaths.Hefeaturesquotesfromrealstudentsandgraduateshehascorrespondedwithovertheyears，candidlyexposingwherethesystemisbrokenandofferingclearsolutionsonhowtofixit.
“ExcellentSheepislikelytomake…alastingmark….Hetakesaimatjustabouttheentiretyofupper-middle-classlifeinAmerica….Mr.Deresiewicz’sbookispackedfullofwhathewantsmoreofinAmericanlife：passionateweirdness”(TheNewYorkTimes).
AsaprofessoratYale，WilliamDeresiewiczsawsomethingthattroubledhimdeeply.Hisstudents，someofthenation’sbrightestminds，wereadriftwhenitcametothebigquestions：howtothinkcriticallyandcreativelyandhowtofindasenseofpurpose.Nowhearguesthatelitecollegesareturningoutconformistswithoutacompass.
ExcellentSheeptakesasharplookatthehigh-pressureconveyorbeltthatbeginswithparentsandcounselorswhodemandperfectgradesandculminatesintheskewedapplicationsDeresiewiczsawfirsthandasamemberofYale’sadmissionscommittee.Asschoolsshiftfocusfromthehumanitiesto“practical”subjectslikeeconomics，studentsarelosingtheabilitytothinkindependently.Itisessential，saysDeresiewicz，thatcollegebeatimeforself-discovery，whenstudentscanestablishtheirownvaluesandmeasuresofsuccessinordertoforgetheirownpaths.Hefeaturesquotesfromrealstudentsandgraduateshehascorrespondedwithovertheyears，candidlyexposingwherethesystemisbrokenandofferingclearsolutionsonhowtofixit.
“ExcellentSheepislikelytomake…alastingmark….Hetakesaimatjustabouttheentiretyofupper-middle-classlifeinAmerica….Mr.Deresiewicz’sbookispackedfullofwhathewantsmoreofinAmericanlife：passionateweirdness”(TheNewYorkTimes).
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