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The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - 0 views

  • Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race.
  • The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from.
  • One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense.
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  • t schools like Cleveland State, they’re being trained for positions somewhere in the middle of the class system, in the depths of one bureaucracy or another.
  • if you’re afraid to fail, you’re afraid to take risks, which begins to explain the final and most damning disadvantage of an elite education
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