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.
- ISBN10 0385529260
- ISBN13 9780385529266
- Publish Date 19 May 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Anchor Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 133
- Language English