Bret Stephens’ Advice to the Class of 2012
Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens provides free advice to the Class of 2012:
Many of you have been reared on the cliché that the purpose of education isn’t to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong. I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It’s not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It’s that they can’t connect the dots when they don’t know where the dots are in the first place.
Sometimes the best advice is that which you don’t want to hear. If that’s the case then the Class of 2012 – and future classes and their parents, should read the entire thing here.
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