William Deresiewicz was a professor at Yale until 2008. He is the author of the landmark essays “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” and “Solitude and Leadership” and is a frequent speaker on campuses around the country. A contributing writer for The Nation and a contributing editor for The New Republic and The American Scholar, he is the author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing.
As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s 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.
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 Yale’s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways. Deresiewicz explains how college should be a time for self-discovery, when students can establish their own values and measures of success, so they can forge their own path. He addresses parents, students, educators, and anyone who's interested in the direction of American society, featuring quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and clearly presenting solutions.
多年前,我还在上大一,读了一本书,叫做《北大毕业等于零》,这本书震撼着当时刚刚被985院校录取的我,至今还可以感受到这本书带来的余震。那本书,对于刚入大学的我,无疑是当头喝棒,让我重新思考上大学的意义。 最近,阅读了一位耶鲁大学教授写的书《优秀的绵羊》,再一次...
評分“你为什么想考研啊?” “为了以后工资高一点啊。” “那你们那研究生工资和本科生差别很大吗?” “好像不是特别大呢。” “那还不如不考呢,这样还可以节省支出,并早点减轻家里负担呢。反正只是为了工作,现在学历的影响也不是那么大了,主要还是看能力。” …… 在没上大...
評分1 棍子 去年夏天,老婆第一次参加闺女的家长会,回来之后就着急上火,口腔溃疡了好几天。原来,一年级刚入学的时候,学校就测试了孩子们的识字水平,有的孩子一上来就过了10级,成了“识字大王”,而我们家闺女连1级都没过。 我大吃一惊:6岁就认识2000多个字啊,这得多聪明...
should we smash a system from outside or alternate it from within?
评分很容易在文章裏麵看齣作者自己也是受到瞭二元論的極大影響。本書讀起來很爽,有種聽高大上學府齣來的人吐槽自己身邊人無趣又無愛的暢快,但作者給齣的理想主義的答案並不能解決一部分人越來越不喜歡學習、希望短期內獲得大量迴報等問題。現代社會信息和知識獲取的方式便捷、成本超低,跟往昔缺乏信息的情況完全不同,事倍功半的結果是Multi Tasking也不奇怪。
评分揭露瞭美國大學體製存在的諸多問題。對通識教育和以就業為導嚮的教育的討論深入到人生意義等宏大的話題。書中的另一個重點是透徹地分析當前體製對富人和中産階級越來越有利。遺憾地是這種現狀很難被改變。NBA可以靠選秀平衡各隊實力,但社會階層的調整實在是太睏難。
评分Excellent book. I agree with the author that "learn to learn" and "finding yourself" are the most important things in college education and probably require a lot of years after college. An excellent sheep is still a sheep.
评分這不就我說的“去波士頓但彆當波士頓人”嘛……考上名校是個人能力的體現,終歸不是件壞事,打著這個招牌到處當troll纔是值得吐槽的吧。傳送 http://libgen.org/get?md5=1c02f9853cf907f22218bc863fe9087d
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