People idolize wealth to an insane degree:
Some students have nicer boats, as in the greater parental involvement and private tutors that wealthier kids are more likely to have.
Yes, of course, it is wealth that makes parents more involved with children. That makes so much sense. Not.
Crowds of parents who are not even remotely wealthy spend a lot of time with their children. Wealth in no way causes parents to have a greater interest in their children. I once had a conversation with a group of rich (and I mean, really rich) classmates, and we discovered that my father, a man of very modest means from a 3rd world country, always spent a lot more quality time with his children than my friends’ ultra-rich fathers. Even though my father had a lot less actual leisure.
And in all of the universities where I taught, the most prepared, most intelligent, most promising students never come from the rich families.
Yes, you can pay for a tutor. But loving parents are not for sale.
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“Crowds of parents who are not even remotely wealthy spend a lot of time with their children. Wealth in no way causes parents to have a greater interest in their children.”
Not just wealth but also cultural norms affect parents relationships with their children. Interesting study on the child descriptors that parents in different countries use to identify their offspring. Folks in Spain most often use the word “easy” to describe their children while Americans’ favourite term is “asks questions.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/how-parents-around-the-world-describe-their-children-in-charts/274955/
What do you deduce from the charts?
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passivity. “Wealth would make me do the right thing, but right now I can’t because nobody has bestowed it on me.”
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EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!
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“And in all of the universities where I taught, the most prepared, most intelligent, most promising students never come from the rich families.”
Of course, but because they said that most students come from rich families, ou government dismisses that.
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