Very interesting. Could it be that relative affluence is enough to lower young
people's drive for capitalist striving? I have a few white, native born
students
who are serious students, but most are not. My foreign students (admittedly a
more
selective group) have much more drive.
On Tue,
On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
Very interesting. Could it be that relative affluence is enough to
lower young
people's drive for capitalist striving? I have a few white, native
born students
who are serious students, but most are not. My foreign students
(admittedly a
Some of my Japanese students arrive knowing virtually no English, except
for reading with their electronic dictionaries. I cannot believe help hard they
work, slogging through, with virtually no social life.
One of our best students got a graduate scholarship, but he aged a great deal
during
the
