We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Very Excellent Sheep.

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Our elite college graduates know how to imitate, but they don’t know how to be independent.
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I have given up on being able to properly pronounce the last name of today’s guest writer. But anytime I see the byline William Deresiewicz I make sure to read very carefully. He first came on my radar through friends who raved about him as a professor at Yale. But Deresiewicz separated himself from that herd when he wrote the book “Excellent Sheep: The…
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