I'm doing stuff for peer-review; a friend dropped by chatting about his resurrection upon reading his icon model - 什么叫精致利己主义精英?
"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.
"胡适大节全无,小节全碎!最佳损友!不愧是中国公知祖师爷,是中国公知前进路上一座不可逾越的丰碑!"
"旧伦理中新思想的师表, 新文化中旧道德的楷模" - said all.
什么叫精致利己主义精英? 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 "精致的利己主义者和常青藤的绵羊" (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 - 曾在耶鲁任教的威廉·德雷谢维奇的新书《精致的利己主义者和常青藤的绵羊》,在书中将美国的精英大学生称为“优秀的绵羊”,这个称号,
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.