The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: an article by William Deresiewicz about how universities should exist to make minds, not careers | The American Scholar
I have read few truer words in my adult life about elite education in America. Life experience confirms, and countless products of this system demonstrate, that the best schools are complicit in creating an entitled mediocracy (my own variation of the author's term). To say that elite universities are factories for the Big Three professions, where independent thought beyond the semester's end is hardly encouraged or supported, for that matter, is a terrible understatement. Pilgrim intellectuals - take your Johnny Appleseed self elsewhere.
Add the Great Recession, and you have a real crisis of confidence in where this ship is going. Heaven forbid, this crisis may even show us the Ivy King's clothes! A truly great read. Enjoy, and share widely! http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/