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The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz

on anti-intellectualism in elite universities
sense of entitlement
self-perpetuating system
promotes narrow analytic skills

• reminds me of: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work.J Anyon - Journal of Education, 1980 - eric.ed.gov

• It’s not surprising that it took me so long to discover the extent of my miseducation, because the last thing an elite education will teach you is its own inadequacy. As two dozen years at Yale and Columbia have shown me, elite colleges relentlessly encourage their students to flatter themselves for being there,


• To consider that while some opportunities are being created, others are being cancelled and that while some abilities are being developed, others are being crippled is, within this context, not only outrageous, but inconceivable.


• it is worth asking what exactly it is you get in the end—what it is we all get, because the elite students of today, as their institutions never tire of reminding them, are the leaders of tomorrow.


• Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race.


• I never learned that there are smart people who don’t go to elite colleges, often precisely for reasons of class. I never learned that there are smart people who don’t go to college at all.
  
  I also never learned that there are smart people who aren’t “smart.”


• One naturally prizes what one most possesses and what most makes for one’s advantages.


• The “best” are the brightest only in one narrow sense.


• The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from.


• second disadvantage, implicit in what I’ve been saying, is that an elite education inculcates a false sense of self-worth.


• The aptitude with which students absorb this lesson is demonstrated by the avidity with which they erect still more gates within those gates, special realms of ever-greater exclusivity—at Yale, the famous secret societies, or as they should probably be called, the open-secret societies, since true secrecy would defeat their purpose. There’s no point in excluding people unless they know they’ve been excluded.


• As John Ruskin told an older elite, grabbing what you can get isn’t any less wicked when you grab it with the power of your brains than with the power of your fists.


• The elite like to think of themselves as belonging to a meritocracy, but that’s true only up to a point. Getting through the gate is very difficult, but once you’re in, there’s almost nothing you can do to get kicked out.


• Yet it is precisely that opportunity that an elite education takes away. How can I be a schoolteacher—wouldn’t that be a waste of my expensive education? Wouldn’t I be squandering the opportunities my parents worked so hard to provide? What will my friends think? How will I face my classmates at our 20th reunion, when they’re all rich lawyers or important people in New York? And the question that lies behind all these: Isn’t it beneath me? So a whole universe of possibility closes, and you miss your true calling.


• Because students from elite schools expect success, and expect it now. They have, by definition, never experienced anything else, and their sense of self has been built around their ability to succeed. The idea of not being successful terrifies them, disorients them, defeats them.
  • This relates to the argument I am making about TFA and low retention rates; failure is a real possibility, maybe even a likelihood. comment by Claire Fontaine


• the final and most damning disadvantage of an elite education: that it is profoundly anti-intellectual.


• Since the idea of the intellectual emerged in the 18th century, it has had, at its core, a commitment to social transformation. Being an intellectual means thinking your way toward a vision of the good society and then trying to realize that vision by speaking truth to power. It means going into spiritual exile.
  • On the genesis of the "intellectual" identity. An 18th century development - who knew? comment by Claire Fontaine


• But students who get into elite schools are precisely the ones who have best learned to work within the system, so it’s almost impossible for them to see outside it, to see that it’s even there.
  • FRAMES - power in invisibility comment by Claire Fontaine


• 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.

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Hi Robby,
Here's a link to a really progressive looking school right in your probable future neighborhood - you would be eligible for 6th grade positions with them, I believe.

xoxo
cmf

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Theory Into Practice: Developing cultural critical consciousness and self-reflection in preservice teacher education

Hello Mark and Noah... Here is the new journal I mentioned.

Claire

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Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy | THE PAULO AND NITA FREIRE INTERNATIONAL PROJECT FOR CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

The project promotes research in Critical Pedagogy, and brings together local and international educators. We are committed to continuing the global development of Critical Pedagogy and to highlighting its relevance with marginalized and indigenous peoples.

Hi Roland,
I thought you might enjoy this peek inside the Bell book we discussed in class a few weeks ago. Hope this ITP thing works out...

Best,
Claire

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