I'm doing stuff for peer-review; a friend dropped by chatting about his resurrection upon reading his icon model - 什麽叫精致利己主義精英?
"Read what he wrote, but don't look at his life as you're disappointed - a bad role model.
Do hear just what they said, but see what they did. I's very disappointed, taken by surprise with this stuff. It got upside down for their images in my mind based on reading a few lines of his poems and anecdotes. If you don't know much about this guy, don't feel regret as he doesn't deserve, not
worth getting your attention.
Quite disappointing: Some guys are like the more the you know , the more respect you got. For some, the opposite is true.""
His sad face has vividly resurfaced - I wonder why. I vaguely remember what's been said.
"胡適大節全無,小節全碎!最佳損友!不愧是中國公知祖師爺,是中國公知前進路上一座不可逾越的豐碑!"
"舊倫理中新思想的師表, 新文化中舊道德的楷模" - said all.
什麽叫精致利己主義精英? Definition? All for me, me for me; you can't do nothing about me.
But How?
Take home message?
William Deresiewicz, writer of New Republic article, "Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League," speaks about his new book, "Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite & The Way to a Meaningful Life," is a rangy and urgent diagnosis of the compromised higher-education system in the United States.
on parenting and teaching, I wonder if parents and teachers want more "精致的利己主義者和常青藤的綿羊" (exquisite egoist and ivy league sheep)."
My take was you're swamped in seas of and got lost in information, education can't help/guide. What can you have? it's your“intuition” and “hunches” as acceptable guides to life decisions.
Never misled by "elites" - so?
William Deresiewicz: "Probably people have always tried to plan their lives in some way to the extent that they can. I mean, who wouldn’t? But I do think the tendency has become hypertrophied among the contemporary
upper-middle-class: the idea that life can be rendered predictable, reduced to an orderly succession of
achievements that will guarantee security and comfort. Breaking students out of that
mentality,
getting them to understand that a successful life necessarily involves a degree of uncertainty
and risk, as well as of serendipity and intuition, is one of the most important functions that
Oct 29, 2015 - 曾在耶魯任教的威廉·德雷謝維奇的新書《精致的利己主義者和常青藤的綿羊》,在書中將美國的精英大學生稱為“優秀的綿羊”,這個稱號,
William Deresiewicz is an American author, essayist, and literary critic. Born in 1964 in Englewood, New Jersey, Deresiewicz attended Columbia University before teaching English at Yale University from 1998-2008.Wikipedia
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Paperback – May 26, 2015. ... A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges - higher education to the woodshed. - the “entitled mediocrity” of the Ivy League.