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 more
selective group) have much more drive.
I think your analysis of the cause (of performance/motivation
disparities) is a lot more reasonable than the idea that the issues
can be attributed to a lack of memorisation of multiplication tables
at the age of three.
--ravi
