How to Succeed

Quote: "Because Americans natural tendency towards "educational romanticism" Murray wrote, we push students to go to college who are simply not smart enough to be there. High school guidance counselors and college admissions officers, lost in a "fog of wishful thinking, and euphemisms" encourage low IQ, low income students to attend colleges that are too intellectually demanding and end up dropping out."

Comment: Wow! I think this quote is definitely powerful and it really catches my attention because it exposes the realities of going to college. Many people come from different backgrounds and many students probably want a different lifestyle rather than living in the traditional American college preparedness system they have everyone going for. I'm not in all means trying to say that going to college is bad, but I feel like many should have the choice to be offered this opportunity but, it's up to the students who feel that they are actually prepared to go through college, take advantage of the opportunity given and make as much out of it.

Connection: In my perspective, I think that college is good in many ways depending on how you take advantage of it weather you graduate or not. If you go to college and you gain experience as well as expand your knowledge and actually get to graduate, I feel like those students grew as they were going through the college experience and actually want to peruse higher education in the future. Whereas someone who went to college and  had the same experience but didn't quite take advantage of it at all, might just have a different kind of interest in the way they learn and expand their creativity. College, I think, is a place where you can go and expand your mind, absorb in all the knowledge, and bring in your creativity by sharing it with others. And it doesn't matter if your smart or not everyone has their own way of being unique and being someone in life weather it is through college or not.

Questions: How can Americans persuade their students to want to learn and be prepared for college?
How can the country contribute to Americas students learning process?