Quotes by : William Deresiewicz

Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating....

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.....

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without....

But the compulsive overachievement of today's elite college students - the sense that they need to keep....

And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that....

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic....

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't....

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices....

Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional,....

[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that....

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose....