Realizing that this book has not aged well. I read this book required for a class I never took the summer before my senior year of high school. Reading an old white male ex-Yale professor say everything I’ve heard millions of times since graduating college and talk about young people in a super patronizing way was not why I wanted to try picking this up again. I remember sorta liking and finding some value the first time I read it in 2015, but now everything has already been said by so many others and so much better. Also he fails to mention in the first chapter how much financial costs and capitalism are a core reason for the issue at hand, which just shows the type of audience this book was written for. Writing a book calling kids “sheep” for going to expensive schools and jumping through hoops while not “actually learning” without mentioning financial costs and other significant social and cultural barriers to academia that make students and young graduates risk-averse is very tone deaf.