Excellent Sheep 优秀的绵羊

Thank you for downloading this Free Press eBook. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Free Press and Simon & Schuster. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP or visit us online to sign up at eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com Contents Introduction PART 1. Sheep 1. The Students 2. The History 3. The Training 4. The Institutions PART 2. Self 5. What Is College For? 6. Inventing Your Life 7. Leadership PART 3. Schools 8. Great Books 9. Spirit Guides 10. Your Guide to the Rankings PART 4. Society 11. Welcome to the Club 12. The Self-Overcoming of the Hereditary Meritocracy Acknowledgments About the Author For my students and as always, for Jill Introduction This book, in many ways, is a letter to my twenty-year-old self. It talks about the kinds of things I wish that someone had encouraged me to think about when I was going to college—such as what the point of college might be in the first place. I was like so many kids today (and so many kids back then). I went off to college like a sleepwalker, like a zombie. College was a blank. College was the “next thing.” You went to......