📕书籍信息
- 书名:Excellent Sheep
- 作者:William Deresiewicz
- 豆瓣评分:⭐7.9
- 出版社:Free Press
- isbn:9781476702711
- 出版日期:2014-8-19
- 价格:USD 26.00
- 豆瓣:Excellent Sheep
🌵内容简介
【编辑推荐】:
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.
As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and …
📣听过的人说…
- 👻: should we smash a system from outside or alternate it from within?
- 👻: 3.5星吧,指出的很多地方的确有问题,但一来有些重复,二来有些地方Liberal Arts的倾向太浓重
- 👽: 很容易在文章里面看出作者自己也是受到了二元论的极大影响。本书读起来很爽,有种听高大上学府出来的人吐槽自己身边人无趣又无爱的畅快,但作者给出的理想主义的答案并不能解决一部分人越来越不喜欢学习、希望短期内获得大量回报等问题。现代社会信息和知识获取的方式便捷、成本超低,跟往昔缺乏信息的情况完全不同,事倍功半的结果是Multi Tasking也不奇怪。
🧐讀書筆記 –
Deresiewicz在书中经常引用Alice Miller的The Drama of The Gifted Child,摘取一个部分来描述我内心最深的不安。
And so, Miller says, the gifted child—no longer necessarily a child, needless to say—swings incessantly between the poles of grandiosity and depression. Grandiosity is the delusion of supremacy. It’s what your parents told you when you did live up to their expectations: You’re perfect! You’re the best! You can do anything you want! It is self-esteem at its most …
📑书籍章节
- Introduction p. 1
- Part 1 Sheep
- 1 The Students p. 7
- 2 The History p. 27
- 3 The Training p. 41
- 4 The Institutions p. 59
- Part 2 Self
- 5 What Is College For? p. 77
- 6 Inventing Your Life p. 89
- 7 Leadership p. 131
- Part 3 Schools
- 8 Great Books p. 149
- 9 Spirit Guides p. 173
- 10 Your Guide to the Rankings p. 191
- Part 4 Society
- 11 Welcome to the Club p. 205
- 12 The Self-Overcoming of the Hereditary Meritocracy p. 225
- Acknowledgments p. 243
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