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William Deresiewicz Quote: “Kids who have been raised under a regimen of positive reinforcement, and whose self-esteem depends on perfection, are not well equipped to handle criticism. Besides, they have better things to do than hit the books. At a big, public party school – let’s call it the University of Southern Football – that probably means beer and television. At elite colleges, it means those all-consuming extracurricular activities.”

51. “Kids who have been raised under a regimen of positive reinforcement, and whose self-esteem depends on perfection, are not well equipped to handle criticism. Besides, they have better things to do than hit the books. At a big, public party school – let’s call it the University of Southern Football – that probably means beer and television. At elite colleges, it means those all-consuming extracurricular activities.”

— William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Quote: “That’s how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don’t belong to you.”

52. “That’s how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don’t belong to you.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “I was also missing something else: the joy that comes when you stop feeling threatened by other people’s accomplishments and let yourself be open to the beauty that they bring into the world. For that is one of the greatest curses of the high-achieving mentality: the envy that it forces on you – the desperation, not simply to be loved, but to be loved, as Auden says, alone.”

53. “I was also missing something else: the joy that comes when you stop feeling threatened by other people’s accomplishments and let yourself be open to the beauty that they bring into the world. For that is one of the greatest curses of the high-achieving mentality: the envy that it forces on you – the desperation, not simply to be loved, but to be loved, as Auden says, alone.”

— William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Quote: “The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity.”

54. “The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “A real education sends you into the world bearing questions, not resumes.”

55. “A real education sends you into the world bearing questions, not resumes.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “Teaching, said Socrates, is the reeducation of desire. If that sounds paternalistic, it is. Professors should be mentors, not commodities or clerks.”

56. “Teaching, said Socrates, is the reeducation of desire. If that sounds paternalistic, it is. Professors should be mentors, not commodities or clerks.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “They address the questions that are proper to us, not as this or that kind of specialist, this or that kind of professional, but as individuals as such – the very questions we are apt to ask when we look up from our work and think about our lives. Questions of love, death, family, morality, time, truth, God, and everything else within the wide, starred universe of human experience.”

57. “They address the questions that are proper to us, not as this or that kind of specialist, this or that kind of professional, but as individuals as such – the very questions we are apt to ask when we look up from our work and think about our lives. Questions of love, death, family, morality, time, truth, God, and everything else within the wide, starred universe of human experience.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “A former student, in an essay called “The Paradox of Potential,” writes, “Instead, we moved cautiously, in groups, plodding down a few well-worn trails so as to ensure that two or four years down the road, we could be stem cells again, still undifferentiated, still brimming with potential.”

58. “A former student, in an essay called “The Paradox of Potential,” writes, “Instead, we moved cautiously, in groups, plodding down a few well-worn trails so as to ensure that two or four years down the road, we could be stem cells again, still undifferentiated, still brimming with potential.”

— William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Quote: “Love, for Austen, isn’t about remaining forever Young. It’s about becoming an adult.”

59. “Love, for Austen, isn’t about remaining forever Young. It’s about becoming an adult.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “I talked about the skill set that MSU provides that you don’t get at an elite institution, including accountability, being forced to try your best because you aren’t constantly patted on the back, and integrating studies with life skills like living and working off campus and generally learning to be an adult.”

60. “I talked about the skill set that MSU provides that you don’t get at an elite institution, including accountability, being forced to try your best because you aren’t constantly patted on the back, and integrating studies with life skills like living and working off campus and generally learning to be an adult.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “All the values that once informed the way we raise our children – the cultivation of curiosity, the inculcation of character, the instillment of a sense of membership in one’s community, the development of the capacity for democratic citizenship, let alone any emphasis on the pleasure and freedom of play, the part of childhood where you actually get to be a child – all these are gone... We are not teaching to the test; we’re living to it.”

61. “All the values that once informed the way we raise our children – the cultivation of curiosity, the inculcation of character, the instillment of a sense of membership in one’s community, the development of the capacity for democratic citizenship, let alone any emphasis on the pleasure and freedom of play, the part of childhood where you actually get to be a child – all these are gone... We are not teaching to the test; we’re living to it.”

— William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Quote: “I am suggesting that you take as many opportunities as possible in college to step away from whatever specialized program of study you have decided to pursue and have the kind of experience that the humanities can give you.”

62. “I am suggesting that you take as many opportunities as possible in college to step away from whatever specialized program of study you have decided to pursue and have the kind of experience that the humanities can give you.”

— William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Quote: “It takes a willingness to be unpopular, however; independent thinking does, and leadership certainly does. Yet kids today are raised not only in an atmosphere of constant affirmation, but also amid the relentless inculcation of prosocial behavior.”

63. “It takes a willingness to be unpopular, however; independent thinking does, and leadership certainly does. Yet kids today are raised not only in an atmosphere of constant affirmation, but also amid the relentless inculcation of prosocial behavior.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “Whole fields have disappeared from view: the clergy, the military, electoral politics, teaching, even academia itself, for the most part, including basic science.”

64. “Whole fields have disappeared from view: the clergy, the military, electoral politics, teaching, even academia itself, for the most part, including basic science.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they’ve already decided they want to become.”

65. “Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they’ve already decided they want to become.”

— William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz Quote: “To ask what college is for is to ask what life is for, what society is for – what people are for.”

66. “To ask what college is for is to ask what life is for, what society is for – what people are for.”

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William Deresiewicz Quote: “We’re still a very wealthy country by any reasonable standard, which means that you’ve been presented with a rare and remarkable chance, one that’s far more precious than the opportunity to be rich: the opportunity not to be. To find your purpose and embrace your vocation, and still to live a decent life.”

67. “We’re still a very wealthy country by any reasonable standard, which means that you’ve been presented with a rare and remarkable chance, one that’s far more precious than the opportunity to be rich: the opportunity not to be. To find your purpose and embrace your vocation, and still to live a decent life.”

— William Deresiewicz

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