The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)
Elite institutions are supposed to provide a humanistic education, but the first principle of humanism is Terence’s: “nothing human is alien to me.” The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from.
The second disadvantage, implicit in what I’ve been saying, is that an elite education inculcates a false sense of self-worth.
Getting to an elite college, being at an elite college, and going on from an elite college—all involve numerical rankings: SAT, GPA, GRE.
If one of the disadvantages of an elite education is the temptation it offers to mediocrity, another is the temptation it offers to security.
The disadvantage of an elite education is tha…
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