Malcolm Gladwell Outliers Analysis

Every child deserves to go through at least twelve years of education. Education helps build opinions to have different views in life, as well as, earn some money to provide for a future family. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers has explained the idea of holding back a child from the fear of him/her being the youngest in the class and not having an advantage or a head start. Parents believe it would be best to hold their child back another year to get a better education and give more confidence for being the oldest in that class. Gladwell explains how players rise to the top of the sport hockey from their birthdates. Players succeed because they play well and perform to the max of their abilities. Gladwell then focuses readers attention on the 2007 roster of the Medicine Hat Tigers showing the cutoff for Canadian Hockey to be January 1st. He notices that the bigger and older kids are moved to
Specifically, many parents ¨feel compelled to redshirt by what they see as unreasonable academic demands for four and five year olds. But keeping children in preschool, according to both academic research and parental experience, doesn't necessarily offer every advantage¨ (Paul 67). As stated, keeping children in preschool does not make a difference as they continue their education. Each child is capable of receiving the same education as the other children. In high school, “redshirted children are less motivated and perform less well. By adulthood, they are no better off in wages or educational attainment- in fact, their lifetime earnings are reduced by one year¨(Aamodt and Wang 69). Redshirting a kid in kindergarden means he will basically be redshirted for the rest of his schooling years. It may be better to hold a kid back at first but in the long run it does not do much for him or her. Education will only get harder for the child making it unnecessary to hold them back in