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Fourteen years of higher education and a handful of Ivy League dees, and there I was, stiff and stupid, struck dumb by my own dumbness. “Ivy retardation,” a friend of mine calls this. I could carry on conversations with people from other countries, in other languages, but I couldn’t talk to the man who was standing in my own house.
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Ring familiar, anyone?
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education, by William Deresiewicz, from this month’s The American Scholar (interestingly titled on the front-cover of the magazine “Why Ivy-Leaguers Can’t Think”) is a must-read.
Now, I know: there’re lots of great people in that system. But there also aren’t.
(via fek)
