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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The Real Purpose of a University Education

[T]he 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.

William Deresiewicz, "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education."
Posted by McDullard at 1:35 AM
Labels: Deresiewicz, elite education, mind

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