
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-d ... education/
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
By William Deresiewicz
并且我很同意太习惯社交网络的一代人不习惯孤独。当然另一个角度讲,工业化的社会需要的是大量的sheep,这样的人好找工作。所以也不能算失败,所以文章很小心的用的词汇是“缺陷”,而不是失败。The ability to engage in introspection, I put it to my students that day, is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential precondition for introspection is solitude. They took this in for a second, and then one of them said, with a dawning sense of self-awareness, “So are you saying that we’re all just, like, really excellent sheep?” Well, I don’t know. But I do know that the life of the mind is lived one mind at a time: one solitary, skeptical, resistant mind at a time. The best place to cultivate it is not within an educational system whose real purpose is to reproduce the class system.