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Title Excellent sheep : the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life / William Deresiewicz.

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New York, NY : Free Press, 2014.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	378.73 D4445e 2014	---	Available

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Edition	First Free Press hardcover edition.
Description	245 pages ; 24 cm
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Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	Introduction -- Pt. 1. Sheep : The students ; The history ; The training ; The institutions -- Pt. 2. Self : What is college for? ; Inventing your life ; Leadership -- Pt. 3. Schools : Great books ; Spirit guides ; Your guide to the rankings -- Pt. 4. Society : Welcome to the club ; The self-overcoming of the hereditary meritocracy.
Subject	Education, Higher -- United States.
	Universities and colleges -- United States.
	Elite (Social sciences) -- Education -- United States.
	Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
	Reasoning -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
	Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
	Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
	Education, Higher.
	Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
	Education, Higher -- Social aspects.
	Elite -- Education.
	Reasoning -- Study and teaching (Higher)
	Universities and colleges.
	United States.
ISBN	9781476702711 (hardback)
	1476702713 (hardback)