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Excellent Sheep

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Excellent Sheep

By William Deresiewicz

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About the book

As a professor at Yale, William 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. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counsellors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the sk...Show more

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9781476702728

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published year

2015

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1

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Excellent Sheep

Format

Paperback

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