The Disadvantages of an Elite Education -

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - The American Scholar Skip to content Exhortation The Disadvantages of an Elite Education Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers By William Deresiewicz | June 1, 2008 Flickr/Jim Alden Listen to a narrated version of this essay: It didn’t dawn on me that there might be a few holes in my education until I was about 35. I’d just bought a house, the pipes needed fixing, and the plumber was standing in my kitchen. There he was, a short, beefy guy with a goatee and a Red Sox cap and a thick Boston accent,

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