Post by cheyennebolin on Aug 9, 2011 21:21:56 GMT -5
In “The Organization Kid” by David Brooks, Brooks goes to the Ivy League school known as Princeton to observe the students there. Once there he finds out just what the life of an Ivy League student is really like. They are hard working, law abiding citizens who spend every day (and night) on a schedule. Like most college students they are focused ion there studies but of course not all colleges and universities are the same. If you want to go to a prestigious school and work your tail off and have to be on a tight regimen then be my guest but I can pretty much guarantee that if Brooks would of gone to a smaller university that has more diversity than an Ivy League (of course Ivy Leagues only take the best to begin with there is so no surprise that Brooks found these students who didn’t mind the controlled life they were living) he would of found out that the same graduating class would have been the similar in the way that some students care about their studies but vastly different in the fact that there would have been some who just didn’t care.
Basically saying Brooks has the thought that all parents should raise their kids up in such a manner that they would grow up to be exact replicas of those students at Princeton that he met with. If every parent did this then there would be no diversity in the world. Diversity is necessary.
Yes, it is advised that parents should help their kids grow and learn new things everyday while they’re young. It is important to raise them up in a fashion where they respect knowledge and thrive for it. There is a limit of course, freedom should be in order. Whether your child wants to study history or science he or she should be able to learn and discover it in a way that is not fully guided and ruled by an adult but by him/her.
There will always be a group from every generation who will go to an Ivy League school and push themselves to be at the top of the job chain. But there will also be the group that doesn’t get so far in life. Both of these groups are needed to keep a balance within society.
In the article it states that, “at some point in the past sophisticated parents cottoned on to the idea that rebellion and experimentation are part of the natural order of growing up, and that parents of teenagers should therefore give their kids enough freedom and space to explore and define themselves. But these new books and a self’s worth of foundation reports how assert that kids today do not seems to want as much freedom and space as they have been granted. So the task for parents is to define boundaries for their adolescents, to alter continual guidance and discipline.”
While teens today do need guidance they also don’t need their every move dictated. Some will turn out just fine and others won’t and I don’t believe that playing Mozart in the womb is going to help define them or not.
Basically saying Brooks has the thought that all parents should raise their kids up in such a manner that they would grow up to be exact replicas of those students at Princeton that he met with. If every parent did this then there would be no diversity in the world. Diversity is necessary.
Yes, it is advised that parents should help their kids grow and learn new things everyday while they’re young. It is important to raise them up in a fashion where they respect knowledge and thrive for it. There is a limit of course, freedom should be in order. Whether your child wants to study history or science he or she should be able to learn and discover it in a way that is not fully guided and ruled by an adult but by him/her.
There will always be a group from every generation who will go to an Ivy League school and push themselves to be at the top of the job chain. But there will also be the group that doesn’t get so far in life. Both of these groups are needed to keep a balance within society.
In the article it states that, “at some point in the past sophisticated parents cottoned on to the idea that rebellion and experimentation are part of the natural order of growing up, and that parents of teenagers should therefore give their kids enough freedom and space to explore and define themselves. But these new books and a self’s worth of foundation reports how assert that kids today do not seems to want as much freedom and space as they have been granted. So the task for parents is to define boundaries for their adolescents, to alter continual guidance and discipline.”
While teens today do need guidance they also don’t need their every move dictated. Some will turn out just fine and others won’t and I don’t believe that playing Mozart in the womb is going to help define them or not.