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"Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation8217s top schools should be8212but aren8217t8212providing: The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those sheep8217), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem8221 (People).As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation8217s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale8217s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to practical8221 subjects like economics, students are losing the ability to think
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