Ep154 - William Deresiewicz
Mixed Mental Arts
English - September 18, 2014 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 341 ratingsEducation Society & Culture learning bryancallen education food huntermaats life mixedmentalarts money school sex Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As a Professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz became concerned by what had happened to America’s education. More than anything, he found that rather than turning out leaders was turning out a bunch of mindless followers. In his book, Excellent Sheep Deresiewicz lays out how the nation’s best universities are miseducating our youth to be so obsessed with achieving success at all costs that we end up with politicians and business leaders who are selfish and complacent. You can find Excellent Sheep on Amazon. You can follow Professor Deresiewicz on twitter at @WDeresiewicz. If you reach out to him, he asks that you call him Bill.