The majority of the population are “sheep”, if “sheep” means they conform to expectations of people around them including parents, teachers, family and friends, and they choose a low risk life style instead of pursuing their dreams or a high order ideal at all cost. The current social structure needs such a mojority to operate. Sheep is not an elite college thing. “Excellent” sheep may be. It is a fair point to say that elite college should produce more out of box thinkers, more scholars and more high impact figures in areas other than business, but it’s misleading to portray elite colleges as THE place and the cause of excellent sheep. If you have worked in corporate America recently, you’d know that they need a LOT of excellent sheep. Elite colleges have always been the place to educate the more affluent and to enhance or otherwise raise their " clients" social and economic status. It so happens that in our times, “excellent sheep” is what the “elite society” is demanding. Nonetheless, there are still those who don’t comply. Technically even from the most elite colleges, graduates going into finance and management consulting are the minority. Then of course, many others want to but cannot get in elite college or elite industry, which doesn’t make them any less “sheep”. So we should look at this phenomenon in a bigger context instead of blaming elite colleges as the author does.
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