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Department of Alchemy 4-273 (alexleavitt.com):
… picking up as many novels and manuals as possible over the coming year. Finally, TED brings perspective. Diversity of people, but also diversity of thoughts. Some opinions I will cherish, some opinions I will blithely disagree with. Still, I want tobe able to speak with everyone. So, we’ll see where the TEDproject goes. Maybe it’ll turn into something excellent, maybe it will crash and burn. I’m excited. I’ll pursue an interest. …

A life in motion (tuatara84.blogspot.com):
… The Disadvantages of an Elite Education …

I wonder... (jjwongsf.blogspot.com):
… Disadvantages of an Ivy Education …

Kosmopolito (www.kosmopolito.org):
… in Europe that always use the likes of Yale and Harvard as best practice examples! “Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers” writes William Deresiewicz in his article “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education“. The author makes quite some interesting points about what students learn in so called “elite universities”. Although he falls short of putting the problem in a wider social context, he nevertheless makes it clear that not everything is as …

unsaturated.com (www.unsaturated.com):
… While reading William Deresiewicz’s “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” I was distracted by the all the imagined adversities and quaint anecdotes. I wanted substance. I wanted someone from within the Ivy League to really break down what it means to be elite. The turning point for the author was at age 35, when he failed …

playthink (playthink.wordpress.com):
… William Deresiewicz, an English professor at Yale University from 1998 to 2008, writes a scathing and provocative disquisition about “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” in the Summer 2008 issue of The American Scholar. This is a must-read for anyone concerned about the fact that “our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers.” Excerpt: There …

Via Frank (viafrank.tumblr.com):
… with one of them last year about his interest in the German Romantic idea of bildung, the upbuilding of the soul. But, he said—he was a senior at the time—it’s hard to build your soul when everyone around you is trying to sell theirs.” -The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz …

inside Rhodes — (connect.rhodes.edu):
… whom are more passionate than me, which will ultimately allow them to attain some level of success.  This support isn’t always the case at other schools.  In a recent edition of Phi Beta Kappa’s The American Scholar, William Deresiewicz writes in“The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” …

Rebecca Allen: A Nerd at Peace (www.rebecca-allen.net):
… but I don’t think it should be normalized. Just because you can use a word doesn’t mean you ought to, and as I think the words we use can and do effect people around us, I choose not to use it.The Disadvantages of an Elite EducationThe first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a …

The Swivet (theswivet.blogspot.com):
… Via Justine Musk, a link to this interesting piece in the American Scholar aboutthe intellectual disadvantages of attending an Ivy League school, or what the author calls "Ivy retardation". "Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect to class, these schools are largely …

Rebecca Allen: A Nerd at Peace (www.rebecca-allen.net):
… but I don’t think it should be normalized. Just because you can use a word doesn’t mean you ought to, and as I think the words we use can and do effect people around us, I choose not to use it.The Disadvantages of an Elite EducationThe first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a …

The Swivet (theswivet.blogspot.com):
… Via Justine Musk, a link to this interesting piece in the American Scholar aboutthe intellectual disadvantages of attending an Ivy League school, or what the author calls "Ivy retardation". "Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect to class, these schools are largely —indeed increasingly— …

Miniver Cheevy (miniver.blogspot.com):
… William Deresiewicz writing at The American Scholar reflects onwhat elite universities produce.There is something wrong with the smugness and self-congratulation that elite schools connive at from the moment the fat envelopes come in the mail. From orientation to graduation, the message is implicit in every tone of voice and tilt of the head, …

CLASS BIAS IN HIGHER EDUCATION (classbias.blogspot.com):
… In the last two posts I presented excerpts fromThe Disadvantages of An Elite Educationby William Deresiewicz. Perhaps the most powerful observation from that article follows: " [T]he way students are treated in college trains them for the social position they will occupy once they get out. At schools like Cleveland State, they’re being train …

MoneyLaw (money-law.blogspot.com):
… The following three paragraphs are taken fromThe Disadvantages of An Elite Educationby William Deresiewicz It is from the Summer 08 issue of American Scholar. "Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect to class, these schools are largely—indeed increasingly …

EvolutionBlog (scienceblogs.com):
… have ever seen in my life (and regular readers of this blog know that's really saying something.) It is called “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: Our Best Universities Have Forgotten that the Reason They Exist is to Make Minds, Not Careers,”and was published …

the quail feed (emilyqualey.tumblr.com):
… dumb by my own dumbness. “Ivy retardation,” a friend of mine calls this. I could carry on conversations with people from other countries, in other languages, but I couldn’t talk to the man who was standing in my own house. Continue reading:The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz …

The High Tech Redneck (gilmoure.livejournal.com):
… The Disadvantages of an Elite Education …

Ernie's 3D Pancakes (3dpancakes.typepad.com):
… As part of a longer online discussion, Bill Deresiewicz (formerly Yale) and Mark Edmundson (Virginia) talk about how universities encourage bad teaching. (You might remember Bill as the Ivy League apparatchik whocouldn't talk to his plumber.) Among the complaints about consumerist university culture and the blind acceptance of tenure and other administrative processes, they refer to Mark Oppenheimer's article on student evaluations in this week's …

sayhiback (sayhiback.blogspot.com):
… Anot-inconsiderable amounthas been said about the disadvantages of an Ivy League education--or, by extension, any kind of training that is widely considered to be the very best (a friend expressed a similar feeling after completing military special forces training and being consigned to Hum-V cleanin …