God and Jerk at Yale

Autor/in	Toor, Rachel
Titel	God and Jerk at Yale
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 49, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Anti Intellectualism; Colleges; Misconceptions; College Faculty; College Students; Social Bias; Educational Environment; Social Influences; Outcomes of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Missverständnis; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Sozialer Einfluss; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	In this article, the author refutes the arguments forwarded by William Deresiewicz in his much-discussed essay, "The American Scholar." Deresiewicz claimed that his background (as a student at Columbia and a former associate professor of English at Yale) rendered him incapable of a few minutes of small talk with the plumber who came to fix his pipes. Deresiewicz went on to rehearse a familiar set of arguments about the entitlements, anti-intellectualism, and careerism of students in the Ivy League and its peer institutions. An elite education "inculcates a false sense of self-worth," he said. The author believes that some of Deresiewicz's contentions are false. As a faculty member at Yale, Deresiewicz never really knew what it was like to be a student at Yale. Deresiewicz's essay, beautifully written and critically smart, flattens the variety of his students' lives into the kinds of generalizations people try to nudge first-year composition students out of making. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10