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1 giu 2010 · Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever. Paperback – June 1, 2010. 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.
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1 gen 2008 · Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever. Walter Kirn. 3.20. 974 ratings173 reviews. Percentile is destiny in America. So says Walter Kirn, a peerless observer and interpreter of American life, in this whip-smart memoir of his own long strange trip through American education.
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21 mag 2009 · May 21, 2009. See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. As tragedies go, not getting what you want is the straightforward kind, and getting it can be the ironic...
10 dic 2020 · Kirn, Walter, 1962- -- Childhood and youth, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography, Students -- United States ...
19 mag 2009 · LOST IN THE MERITOCRACYreckons up the costs of a system where the point is simply to keep accumulating points and never to look back—or within. It's a remarkable book that suggests the first step toward intellectual fulfillment is getting off the treadmill that is the American meritocracy.
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May 2009. Media type. Print ( Hardback. Pages. 224 pp (hardback edition) ISBN. 0-385-52128-6 (hardback edition) Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever is a 2009 memoir by Walter Kirn. It describes his own trip through the American education system from rural Minnesota to Princeton University.
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...
