Are You Saying We're Just Like Really Excellent Sheep?

The title of this article came from a student who asked if Yale students are all just like really excellent sheep, meaning she and her Yale classmates. "Exemplary" is an important word to focus on when we say that we're looking for excellence or producing excellence in students," he says. The system actually militates against that kind of deeper thinking because it forces them to go from one thing to the other day after day, week after week without being able to immerse themselves in their coursework nor do they have any intellectual depth.