August 15, 2008
God and Jerk at Yale
Parents and high-school students take note: A controversial article misses the point
My friend Carl, an academic, likes to say that he would never let his kids go to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton because those colleges turn people into jerks. A recent, much-discussed essay in The American Scholar by William Deresiewicz, "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education," seems to provide fodder for his argument. Deresiewicz claims that his background (as a student at Columbia and a former
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