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  title info:
    title: Excellent sheep
    sub title: the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life
  title info:
    title: Xcellent sheep
  name:
    name part: Deresiewicz, William
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 245 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be--but aren't--providing"--
  abstract: Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Sheep. The students ; The history ; The training ; The institutions -- Self. What is college for? ; Inventing your life ; Leadership -- Schools. Great books ; Spirit guides ; Your guide to the rankings -- Society. Welcome to the club ; The self-overcoming of the hereditary meritocracy.
  note: William Deresiewicz.
  note: On jacket, the word "Excellent" has a big red "X" over the letters "Ex", making the title "Xcellent sheep."
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Universities and colleges
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Elite (Social sciences)
    topic: Education
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Critical thinking
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Reasoning
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    topic: Aims and objectives
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  classification: LA227.4 .D74 2014
  classification: 378.73
  identifier: 9781476702711 (hardback)
  identifier: 1476702713 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781476702735 (ebk.)
  identifier: 2014010790
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  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1408/2014010790-b.html
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140428
    record change date: 20140916131437.0
    record identifier: in00003480614
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng