A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be--but arent--providing-- A Yale professor and author of A Jane Austen Education evaluates the consequences of high-pressure educational and parenting approaches that challenge the minds ability to think critically and creatively, calling for strategic changes that can offer college students a self-directed sense of purpose. Evaluates the outcomes of high-pressure educational and parenting approaches that challenge the minds ability to think critically and creatively, calling for changes that can offer college students a self-directed sense of purpose.