The Danger Of Telling Poor Kids That College Is The Key To Social Responsibility Analysis

Summary The Danger of Telling Poor Kids That College is the Key to Social Mobility was written by Andrew Simmons. His article was posted in The Atlantic on January 16, 2014, discusses how teachers and counselors need to encourage students of every race that going to college to increase in knowledge about the world is just as, if not more important as going to college with the mindset of trying to get a job that makes a lot of money (p. 3). Andrew Simmons start the article off by describing a 17 year-old named Isabella that writes a entry essay to get into college because she wants to make oceanography her career (p. 1). The content of her essay was a perfect picture of what her teachers and counselors had been telling her about college. They had been nurturing the idea that the reason to go to college should be to get a job so one could make a lot of money, rather than encouraging that the best past of going to college is to go because one loves to learn and expanded in
1). Although Isabella's essay contained the propaganda that teachers had been telling her, she also realized that the importance of college is to gain knowledge about things that are of a passion to them (p. 2). Wealthy students are not given the same speech that those of low-income like Isabella and her classmates are given, because they have more money and have a higher chance to get into college. The rich students rarely are concerned about how much their future jobs will make (p. 2). They were more concerned with doing something in their field that would help or change someone's life for the good (p. 3). All students whether wealthy of poor should be able to experience the ability to follow their dreams (p. 3). Students, regardless of what race they are, should be encouraged to go to college, especially liberal-arts colleges, in order to widen their view of