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Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
What kind of person is our education system designed to create? Best-selling author and award-winning essayist William Deresiewicz discusses the failures of our higher education system, how it mis-conditions our elite, and fails to value the humanities, as well as his latest collection of essays, The End of Solitude.
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Released:
May 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Hayes Peter Mauro, “The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School” (University of New Mexico Press, 2011): Anyone who’s turned on the television in the past several decades is familiar with the ubiquitous before-and-after picture. On the left, your present state: undesirable, out of shape, balding perhaps. Add ingredient X – maybe a fad diet or a hair trans... by New Books in Education