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Excellent Sheep

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life is a 2015 book of social criticism on the role of elite colleges in American society written by William Deresiewicz and published by Free Press. Deresiewicz addresses the pressure of succeeding under which students are put by their parents and by society, considering more particularly the ones that are planning to attend Ivy League universities.

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Excellent Sheep
AuthorWilliam Deresiewicz
SubjectPhilosophy of education, higher education, general sociology1
Published2015 (Free Press)
Pages2561
ISBN9781476702728 1

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life is a 2015 book of social criticism on the role of elite colleges in American society written by William Deresiewicz and published by Free Press.1 Deresiewicz addresses the pressure of succeeding under which students are put by their parents and by society, considering more particularly the ones that are planning to attend Ivy League universities.

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  1. Deresiewicz, William (2015). Excellent Sheep. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-0272-8. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016.
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