With Common Core and the emphasis on STEAM, classrooms are moving more towards creativity and divergent thinking. I'm a curriculum coach so I'm seeing this K-12. Divergent thinking and problem-solving are components to training students to use their minds. I'm imagining this is threatening to many groups.

Another true liberal who will soon be labeled as alt-white. For describing reality.

The lefters are no longer defenders of truth.

I don't think it's just Ivy League schools or even just colleges.

That is a book that I would love to read. Thank you for the up.
But with out even have read it yet, I can Attest to the premise.
When I was young, and mind you this was during the Carter administration, where higher learning was something that he really fought for, was fortunate to have been administered into a " Modern educational school", for lack of better words.
We were, rather than memorizing names and dates, were shown how to use and apply critical thinking.
For example, we would discuss a topic, and then sent out on our own to research our findings, and write a paper on what we had learned. and even then we would still discuss what we had learned, and came to a consensus.

Unfortunately, that ended in my Tenth grade. Going back to a public school for the two remaining years was much akin to torture.

I am simply dumbfounded on why that system never advanced farther than that.
But I have to say that the "critical thinking" aspect has never left me. I still apply it to just about every thing I do.

Such a tool is paramount to any other system I've ever seen.

Monty Python portrayed the british version of them very well.

Sounds mighty interesting, however I think that I need to read all the other 150 000 books that I already have at home, on my bookshelves, under the bed, in piles on the floor, in boxes in the garage, but if I ever finish them, I shall get to that one too.

It sounds like an interesting book. Thanks for the book report, I mean review.

My brother went to an Ivy league school, Dartmouth, for one year, then dropped out because it was too expensive, which was back in the 70s. Can only imagine what it costs now. He took away from it a very disillusioned view of how the offspring of the elite think and act as well as the lesson that for most of those members of elite families the main benefit of an Ivy league education as well as the top priority among their kind is the making of connections with others of their kind with which to get jobs in govt. or the private sector. It's just an expensive 4 year boarding school to party and network in.

Thanks for the suggestion, sounds like an excellent book. But, of course my library did not have it but Amazon did for 6.98! On order.

"Ivy Leaguers" are much overrated. Theirs are "prestige degrees", and are in no way indicative of their intellect. I've had a few "Ivy League" profs., and wasn't too impressed by them.

Well things may have moved on a little, in my day in the UK, (long time ago) if you had an original thought, the teachers would slap you.

Added it to my reading list.

Wow I didn’t realize that nearly 50% of Americans went to Ivy League schools. ?

Sounds like a book I need to add to my library. Thank you for posting.