Lost in the Meritocracy

The Undereducation of an Overachiever

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Higher Education, Educational Theory, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Walter Kirn ISBN: 9780385529266
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: May 19, 2009
Imprint: Anchor Language: English
Author: Walter Kirn
ISBN: 9780385529266
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: May 19, 2009
Imprint: Anchor
Language: English

A New York Times Notable Book
A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year

From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back—or within. 
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A New York Times Notable Book
A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year

From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was instead just another arena for more gamesmanship, snobbery, and social climbing. In this whip-smart memoir of kissing-up, cramming, and competition, Lost in the Meritocracy reckons the costs of an educational system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back—or within. 
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