This is a response to the link below:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/yale-college-seeks-smart-students-from-poor-families/283283/
The fact that "smart students from poor families" are hard to find is itself an indication of our failing education system. The poor are not born unintelligent, they just didn't have time to read Aristotle because they were busy dealing with difficult lives. The solution is not to pick poor students like "low-hanging fruit" to reduce the "country's income divide for the next generation." The solution is to fix things upstream so each "poor student" can compete equally with anyone regardless of class and not have to feel like he/she is blessed with a Yale or Ivy degree.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/yale-college-seeks-smart-students-from-poor-families/283283/
The fact that "smart students from poor families" are hard to find is itself an indication of our failing education system. The poor are not born unintelligent, they just didn't have time to read Aristotle because they were busy dealing with difficult lives. The solution is not to pick poor students like "low-hanging fruit" to reduce the "country's income divide for the next generation." The solution is to fix things upstream so each "poor student" can compete equally with anyone regardless of class and not have to feel like he/she is blessed with a Yale or Ivy degree.
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