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A real education sends you into the world bearing questions, not resumes.
— William Deresiewicz
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most ... is yourself
— William Deresiewicz
Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.
— William Deresiewicz
If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
— William Deresiewicz
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.
— William Deresiewicz
So are you saying that we're all just, like, really excellent sheep?
— William Deresiewicz
Information is freely available everywhere now. The question is whether you know what to do with it.
— William Deresiewicz
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
— William Deresiewicz
Everybody wants their child to get an education, but nobody wants them to get an education education.
— William Deresiewicz
People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.
— William Deresiewicz
I believe librarians, like English teachers, sit at the right hand of God.
— William Deresiewicz
Educators in China are increasingly concerned that their system isn't cultivating critical and independent minds.
— William Deresiewicz
Now our kids must have the qualities of both an old aristocrat and a modern technocrat. No wonder they're so busy, and so frantic.
— William Deresiewicz
Growing up elite means learning to value yourself in terms of the measures of success that mark your progress into and through the elite:
— William Deresiewicz
Don't sell your options short
— William Deresiewicz
Service, which is nothing other than a modern echo of noblesse oblige, and generally undertaken in the same spirit of benign condescension.
— William Deresiewicz
The Bible doesn't say that money is the root of all evil; it says that love of money is.
— William Deresiewicz
Of course her daughter got into Harvard: that is exactly the kind of parenting the system rewards. That's exactly what is wrong with it.
— William Deresiewicz
We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.
— William Deresiewicz
But there is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.
— William Deresiewicz
A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. The desire to eliminate uncertainty eliminates life.
— William Deresiewicz
Colleges should remember that selecting students by GPA more often benefits the faithful drudge than the original mind.
— William Deresiewicz
We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
— William Deresiewicz
A real reader creates her own canon, for it consists precisely of those books that she has used to create herself.
— William Deresiewicz
Tiger Mother felt like reliving a childhood trauma; The Drama of the Gifted Child felt like going through the therapy to cure it.
— William Deresiewicz
Teaching, said Socrates, is the reeducation of desire.
— William Deresiewicz
The very fact that we still have majors at all in this country represents a compromise between the ideals of depth and breadth -
— William Deresiewicz
If you grow up with less, you are much better able to deal with having less. That is itself a kind of freedom.
— William Deresiewicz
We are not teaching to the test; we are living to it.
— William Deresiewicz
That's how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don't belong to you.
— William Deresiewicz
Look for courses that want to humanize you, not specialize you.
— William Deresiewicz
