At a time when so many students have an “Ivy League or bust” mentality it’s important to take a step back and reflect on a piece from two years ago in The Atlantic magazine in which former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz stirred up quite a storm just after publishing another article, “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. In this interview he takes these arguments even further, as he does in his book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.
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