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Author - William Deresiewicz
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academics
Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating....
pragmatism
We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.....
philosophical
No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without....
students
But the compulsive overachievement of today's elite college students - the sense that they need to keep....
young adult
And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that....
depression
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic....
college
The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't....
taxation
We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices....
yuppies
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional,....
stories
[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that....
citizenship
Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose....
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