a little food for thought - elite education

Aug 23, 2008 20:59

"But if you’re afraid to fail, you’re afraid to take risks, which begins to explain the final and most damning disadvantage of an elite education: that it is profoundly anti-intellectual. This will seem counterintuitive. Aren’t kids at elite schools the smartest ones around, at least in the narrow academic sense? Don’t they work harder than anyone ( Read more... )

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anonymous October 13 2008, 07:38:00 UTC
OMG so true. - Amy

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