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Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

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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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Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

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