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Old 05-11-2016, 03:23 PM   #6174
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Malcolm Gladwell wrote the book David and Goliath that talks about strengths and weaknesses and how our perception of them is not always accurate. In the book it discusses how small classrooms have a negative effect because they have less diversity and it leads to less discussion. His book Outliers also points out that being from a prestigious university doesn't increase your odds on winning a Nobel Prize. I'm going to be sending my kids to public school, I know people that went to public school and others that went to private, I don't see that much of a difference career wise.
This. I grew up in this country thinking we paid more than just lip service to equality. But it seems like with each passing year we're getting closer and closer to the ME ME ME!! state of things South of the Border or over the Pacific.
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