An excellent talk from the author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Eliter & The Way to a Meaningful Life. The book is based on an article that appeared in the American Scholar in 2008. The article and book is a wake-up call for all those that have embraced a neo-liberal view of education.
The following is a talk Dr. Deresiewicz gave at Stanford’s McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society: