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American higher education is the most expensive in the world. The average annual tuition at a four-year private college is more than twenty-two thousand dollars.

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"One thing that might be hoped for, though, is that, somewhere along the way, every student had a moment of vertigo."

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"American colleges notoriously inflate grades, but they can never inflate them enough, because education in the United States has become hypercompetitive and every little difference matters."

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"American colleges notoriously inflate grades, but they can never inflate them enough, because education in the United States has become hyper-competitive and every little difference matters."

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"And the narrower the funnel, the finer applicants grind themselves in order to squeeze through it. "

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"but some part of it is about shrinking people, about teaching them that they are not the measure of everything"

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"College, from which some 1.5 million people will graduate this year, is, basically, a sleepover with grades"

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"We want to give graduates confidence to face the world, but we also want to protect the world a little from their confidence. Humility is good. There is not enough of it these days."

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Demeter

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"Everything you do in a meritocratic society is some kind of test, and there is no final exam"

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"More than fifty percent of Americans sped time in college, and America spend in college, and American higher education is the most expensive in the world."

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American colleges notoriously inflate grades, but they can never inflate them enough, because education in the United States has become hyper competitive and every little difference matters."

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"Everything you to in a meritocratic society is some kind of test, and there never is a final exam. There is only another test."

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"You can't learn when you're afraid of being wrong."

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"The question isn't what the english majors aren't taking; the question is what everyone else isn't taking. "

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"College should give them the intellectual equivalent of their childhood sleepover experience. We want to give graduates confidence to face the world, but we also want to protect the world a little from their confidence. Humility is good. There is not enough of it these days" Paragraph 6

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"We want to give graduates confidence to face the world, but we also want to protect the world a little from their confidence. Humility is good. There is not enough of it these days."

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"People seem to pick up on this earlier and earlier in their lives, and at some point it starts to get in the way of their becoming educated. You can't learn when you're afraid of being wrong." Pg. 176

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"College, from which some 1.5 million people will graduate this year is, basically, a sleepover with grades." (pg. 176 Paragraph 2)