Season 2 · Episode 67
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
New Books in Education · Marshall Poe
May 31, 202349m 2s
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Show Notes
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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