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We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Very Excellent Sheep.
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.
By William Deresiewicz
05.24.22 — Education
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We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Very Excellent Sheep.

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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William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz is the author of five books including Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and A Jane Austen Education. His most recent book is The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.

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