William Deresiewicz explains how an elite education can lead to a cycle of grandiosity and depression.
Lauren Cassani Davis
THE ATLANTIC - Aug 19, 2014
The former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz stirred up quite a storm earlier this month with his New Republic essay “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League”—a
damning critique of the nation’s most revered and wealthy educational
institutions, and the flawed meritocracy they represent. He takes these
arguments even further in his upcoming book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.
Part cultural commentary, part philosophical treatise on the meaning of
education itself, the book reads like a self-help manual for ambitious
yet internally adrift adolescents struggling to figure out how to
navigate the college system, and ultimately their own lives.
Deresiewicz, who is also the author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship and the Things That Really Matter, spoke to me on the phone from his home in Portland, Oregon.
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