Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

It takes practice, teamwork, and many other factors. Learning to become successful is different for everyone, even you are famous are not. The book “The Outliers” by Malcom Gladwell will be “good news” for anyone to read, even if they are average. The book shows how people got famous people get successful in life. Achieving successful is based on three factors: ethnicity, luck and timing.

This may be true for some, but not for all. Schooling is highly important and gives us a sufficient amount of education. But learning from real-life experiences can provide much more education and valuable to a person’s life. In today’s society, not graduating from high school or college is symbolized as shameful. The most well-known Americans, “George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln?

You always hear people in our society claiming that youth of today do not care about anything and this is not the case as evidenced by these survey results reported in this essay. As previously stated, Kohlberg’s model of moral reasoning these students are appropriately in stages three and four which is exactly where they should be at this point in their lives. Also, Kohlberg states that there usually is a difference of how the students may actually feel and think as opposed to how they actually will

Imagine being stranded on an inhabited island with a bunch of other kids and no adults. It could seem fun at first. But that feeling won’t last long, at least not in the case of Lord of the Flies. In an attempt to avoid the inevitable, the kids apoint a leader, trying to restore society’s rules and avoid chaos. In Lord of the Flies, the boys democratically institute a ‘chief’.

While school may teach lessons, they are certainly not valuable life lessons. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird repeatedly shows the ineffectiveness of the education system in a child’s morals. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the Great Depression era in Alabama, where education was not the best. Teachers would only seek to teach their classes average, everyday lessons rather than valuable life teachings. Throughout the novel, Scout and Jem learn more and more valuable life lessons through real life scenarios than they ever would have ever learned at school.

To the outsider, recess may seem like a waste of time when you could be spending time drilling test questions. It's true in the short term, but long term, what they are losing is the opportunity to develop their imagination and critical thinking skills." All of what he says is greatly supported by research. Now, if someone does gets hurt, well that is a problem, but how will they learn to get back up again if they never get hurt or fail in some way. Once they learn this, they will have no problem jumping up again on a problem they have failed to come over.

Having a degree from a four-year college is proven to increase the amount of money you will make in your lifetime by 1 million dollars. In order for progress to be made, we must make changes to the way the UC system is run. Although it would be economically impossible to make all colleges completely free, they must be made financially affordable for everyone. The UC Board only spends 25% of its funds on the colleges and educating students. The rest goes to laboratories and research facilities, all of which are reaping billions of dollars, and could be entirely self-sufficient.

[F] Dominic was so intent on fulfilling his dreams that he didn’t care about the negative things; hope demanded he aim for his dreams. [G] The author Scott Barry writes about hope with “Talent, skill, ability-whatever you want to call it-will not get you there… a wealth of psychological research over the past few decades show loud and clear that it’s the psychological vehicles that really get you there” (Barry,1). [H] You need more than just talent or the potential to get you to where you want and Dominic had more than that. [I] Besides being a great xylophone player, it took Dominic’s hope to get him to where he wanted. [J] There are many things Dominic had to overcome in order to reach his dream.

Often times we know the right thing to do. However, as teenagers and even as adults, we can get caught up in logic and abandon what we know in our hearts and in our souls to be true. Moreover, we are frequently good at starting a project but finishing it sometimes becomes difficult; especially when facing opposition and /or when we lose sight of the finish line. These ideas present themselves in this week's parsha. Specifically, Noach knows that he needs to build a tevah in the face of communal doubt and criticism of his actions.

Wisdom, Walden, and Withdrawal “...if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours,”( Thoreau 625). Henry David Thoreau shares his journey and experiences throughout Walden. Thoreau speaks greatly about the elements of self reliance and achieving goals. Several of Thoreau's lessons are still relevant in today's society, two of his fundamental ideas are that wisdom does not come from education and that loneliness is not the same thing as being alone. Wisdom is not gained merely by time, but by meticulous studying and practice.

In his essay “Dwelling in Possibilities”, Mark Edmundson claims that students today have a drive to experience the world, but that their incessant need to keep their options open prevents them from fully appreciating what they have. When he claims this, however, he provides evidence, both anecdotal and statistical, and does it in a way to doesn 't come across as condescending or disapproving, unlike the majority of older adults commenting on the peculiarities of the Millennial generation. His work shows a genuine interest and curiosity into the causes, and effects, of this mindset on young adults. Generally speaking, Edmundson’s essay is a composition I can agree with. He posits that the desire exhibited by many members of my own generation, a desire I myself relate to,

In Waiting for Superman, the classrooms did not have the updated technology, science labs, nor the funding to make sure that all classrooms had well equipped furnishings. However, in chartered schools, they had a very neat school with a nice lobby and funding to even have dorms rooms inside the schools. Although In Waiting for Superman, the film depicted a positive environment in chartered schools, in The Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, the film shows that chartered schools were the exact opposite. It demonstrated how teachers were not so welcoming for new students and treated the school as a boot camp. For instance, one student had to work his way up and earn the right throughout the school year to show that he deserves a chair to sit in.

It also lacked a history of why this started to happen in schools around the nation. Blank and Berg cited Noel Epstein 's quote from her book Who’s in Charge Here? Which said “While policymaking elites have focused for decades on academic issues, polls have shown the public to be more concerned about inadequate parental involvement…”(Blank and Berg). This goes to show that politicians believe it is bad schooling while the public believe it is bad parenting. And so the idea of sharing responsibility for the child was created in an attempt to have the parents, the school, and the community to all help in raising the child.