elite education article

in Eliza's words, a "semi-depressing article" on the state of elite education

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/

"the first disadvantage of an elite education ... is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren't like you ... how very much of the human it alienates from you"

"the elite like to think of themselves as belonging to a meritocracy, but that's only true up to a point"

"students from elite schools expect success, and they expect it now ... they've been driven their whole life by a fear of failure"

it made me go "oh GOSH.."