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I think the Ivy League is now overrated. Used to be there was some sort of guarantee associated with having a degree from an IL school that would put you ahead of other people. And they are great schools with awesome student bodies, but there are plenty of people nowadays who don't go there who are equally if not more successful.
I think the Ivy League is now overrated. Used to be there was some sort of guarantee associated with having a degree from an IL school that would put you ahead of other people. And they are great schools with awesome student bodies, but there are plenty of people nowadays who don't go there who are equally if not more successful.
That's a hard question because there are so many! One of the key mistakes many universities have made is to view the pursuit of knowledge as something that best takes place in fenced-off institutions like themselves. The humble necessities of everyday life outside the university environment, especially most people's ongoing need to make money through concrete economic activity, are seen as an obstacle to knowledge, when in fact they offer a knowledge of one's own limits that you can't get in an environment that scorns humble everyday concerns in pursuit of an abstract ideal that can never be fully realized.
I believe the universities would do well to return to the model where professors are, for the most part, just plain intellectually engaged people who are taking a few years off their normal pursuits to share what they've learned, before they return to everyday life. If you live your whole adult life in a university environment, as many professors do, I think that degree of focused isolation to the hilt for an idealized purpose can be very damaging to one's appreciation of the "big picture".
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