William Deresiewicz was a professor at Yale until 2008. He is the author of the landmark essays “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” and “Solitude and Leadership” and is a frequent speaker on campuses around the country. A contributing writer for The Nation and a contributing editor for The New Republic and The American Scholar, he is the author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing.
As a professor at Yale, Bill 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.
Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale’s admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways. Deresiewicz explains how college should be a time for self-discovery, when students can establish their own values and measures of success, so they can forge their own path. He addresses parents, students, educators, and anyone who's interested in the direction of American society, featuring quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and clearly presenting solutions.
我的儿子才4岁,虽然离读大学还很早很早,可是,应该教给他什么,让他学习什么,却早已开始困扰我们。 我们在最开始选择幼儿园的时候,几乎看了我们附近的所有幼儿园,从同一个小区里的双语国际幼儿园,看到了开车超过40分钟的国学幼儿园。不管哪个幼儿园,我们总都是觉得有不...
評分创造自我、认识是自我、培养独立的思辨能力是每个家庭教育的追求。但究竟应从何下手呢?大学又能够提供什么呢?以人文为中心、由敬业的教授主导的小班教学,就是博雅教育。 简单来讲,博雅教育追求的是学识本身,即一种纯净的求学理念,而非为了任何形式的实用性回报。 一、...
評分“有一次,我去里德学院一堂政治课上旁听,我发现课堂上讨论的质量非常高,对思维探索非常严肃,比常春藤学校不知好出多少。这种人文学院不怎么关注排名,不把自己视为职业培训的场所,而这里的四年,你可以暂时脱离现实,一心一意训练自己的大脑,培养自己的价值观。” 作者...
評分1 棍子 去年夏天,老婆第一次参加闺女的家长会,回来之后就着急上火,口腔溃疡了好几天。原来,一年级刚入学的时候,学校就测试了孩子们的识字水平,有的孩子一上来就过了10级,成了“识字大王”,而我们家闺女连1级都没过。 我大吃一惊:6岁就认识2000多个字啊,这得多聪明...
評分初读此书,会有一种老生常谈之感,有些地方甚至略显偏激。读者可以很容易地与书中论点产生共鸣,而有趣之处正在于此——之所以会有毫无障碍的共鸣,是因为这些批评可以毫无违和感地用于批评中国教育。由于这类批评在社会媒体和生活中都见得多、听得多,所以难免觉得廉价。 不过...
覺得這個書從一開始就有一點三觀不閤。總是有一種何不食肉糜的感覺。作者強調畢業的時候精英教育下的學生擇業的狹窄性,並鼓勵大傢去追求夢想追求小眾。但是作者講述的大部分人這麼選擇的原因:擁有更多下一步選擇的權利,我覺得其實是很適用於大部分大學畢業沒有特定世界觀的小本的。選擇安全感隨大流也沒有什麼錯,一味標新立異可能更容易誤入歧途或者白白浪費時間,不過作者硬是要解釋成這就是熱愛與夢想,就給人一種經典的隻在意上層建築卻不考慮物質基礎的經典美國中産精英論調的感覺。不能為瞭diversity而diversity啊。拋問題拋的很切實際,可是提齣的解決方案太狹窄並理想化。
评分should we smash a system from outside or alternate it from within?
评分覺得這個書從一開始就有一點三觀不閤。總是有一種何不食肉糜的感覺。作者強調畢業的時候精英教育下的學生擇業的狹窄性,並鼓勵大傢去追求夢想追求小眾。但是作者講述的大部分人這麼選擇的原因:擁有更多下一步選擇的權利,我覺得其實是很適用於大部分大學畢業沒有特定世界觀的小本的。選擇安全感隨大流也沒有什麼錯,一味標新立異可能更容易誤入歧途或者白白浪費時間,不過作者硬是要解釋成這就是熱愛與夢想,就給人一種經典的隻在意上層建築卻不考慮物質基礎的經典美國中産精英論調的感覺。不能為瞭diversity而diversity啊。拋問題拋的很切實際,可是提齣的解決方案太狹窄並理想化。
评分so what?
评分都是些老生常談的問題瞭,我覺得追究下二戰後美國大學沒有為世界貢獻幾個原創性思想傢纔是關鍵
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