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Harvard students may think they’re getting the best education in the world. Last night, 150 of them were told otherwise. A standing-room-only crowd packed the Tsai Auditorium in the Center for Government and International Studies yesterday to hear former Yale professor William Deresiewicz debate two undergraduates on the merits of “elite education.” The discussion panel, titled “The (dis)Advantages of an Elite Education,” was based on Deresiewicz’s controversial article of the same name, published in The American Scholar magazine, which...
...wonderfully flawed exhortation in The American Scholar, William Deresiewicz excoriated elite universities and the paths they lead their students down. Students at places like Harvard, he argued, generally remain within the system, don’t take risks, and ultimately become “profoundly anti-intellectual.” “The idea of not being successful terrifies them, disorients them, defeats them,” Deresiewicz claimed. And in many ways, he’s right. As amazing as my summer at home has been, I can’t shake the gnawing anxiety that I might...
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