The Absurd Race to Get Accepted at the Ivy League

This blog about the absurd race for high school graduates to gain acceptance at one of the top 50 colleges and universities in America – especially at the Ivy League institutions - is a continuation of the blog entitled "Is Education 2nd or 3rd Place at Elite Institutions?" In that piece, I look at education through a critical lens based on some very interesting stuff in a book entitled Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite. The book is an alarming indictment of the state of U.S. higher education, stretched and bent out of shape by money, the quest to "get ahead" (and avoid sinking), and the desire to separate one's family from the great, unwashed masses, if you will. In this continuation, I go a bit more into a truer and more authentic purpose of education, and share many education quotes, and I ask what the purposes of gaining more money and getting ahead are anyway.

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