Excellent Sheep

Excellent Sheep

Starting from a viral essay, the 2014 book “Excellent Sheet: The Miseducation of American Elite” by Deresiewicz presents a critique of a system. The short take away might be a critique of the elite schools, but the critique is broader (why generations scramble to live a performative life without purpose). My notes don’t focus on […]

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Logan Cochrane

Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.

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