As Brink Lindsey states in his article “Culture of Success,” the main reason why many low-income high school graduates do not go to college is based on how they were raised, like how much time the parents/guardians. Though I can identify how we could make this assumption under unreliable statistics, however I strongly disagree with the idea of how well you raise your children is solely dependent on your family's income. As a young scholar, I find Lindsey’s article to be interesting and not helpful, but it is not something that I would aimlessly call fact.
Brink Lindsey starts his article by addressing the problems on why people are not going to college. The author explains that the problem was started from our culture progressing too …show more content…
As a result, his findings can be easily disproven by the varying situations of the families. My family and me are to be taken into account of Lindsey’s findings as well, because we are considered a low-income family. I am delighted to say that my family disproves Lindsey’s findings, parents are able to spend time with my siblings and I and help us with our problems. With this in mind, they have mange their time more effectively to everything done each day. So, my parents contradicts Lindsey’s theory that he …show more content…
By writing his theories in a way where they end contradicting each other. For example, Lindsey writes, “That commonsense notion has been confirmed by the findings of the so-called ‘Expert Performance Movement,’ led by Florida State University psychologist Anders Ericsson,” (Lindsey 3). Then, he explains their research as valid support for his idea of hard work being the main reason why people are not going to college and not due to income status. Consequently, he talks about how your income affects how hard you work. Lindsey goes further to say the working class, and the aristocrats kids are more likely to work harder than lower class kids based on the way they are raised (Lindsey 3). So, within two paragraphs he claims that hard work does not correlate with money, and then the next paragraph he says that income affects their work
Brink Lindsey starts his article by addressing the problems on why people are not going to college. The author explains that the problem was started from our culture progressing too …show more content…
As a result, his findings can be easily disproven by the varying situations of the families. My family and me are to be taken into account of Lindsey’s findings as well, because we are considered a low-income family. I am delighted to say that my family disproves Lindsey’s findings, parents are able to spend time with my siblings and I and help us with our problems. With this in mind, they have mange their time more effectively to everything done each day. So, my parents contradicts Lindsey’s theory that he …show more content…
By writing his theories in a way where they end contradicting each other. For example, Lindsey writes, “That commonsense notion has been confirmed by the findings of the so-called ‘Expert Performance Movement,’ led by Florida State University psychologist Anders Ericsson,” (Lindsey 3). Then, he explains their research as valid support for his idea of hard work being the main reason why people are not going to college and not due to income status. Consequently, he talks about how your income affects how hard you work. Lindsey goes further to say the working class, and the aristocrats kids are more likely to work harder than lower class kids based on the way they are raised (Lindsey 3). So, within two paragraphs he claims that hard work does not correlate with money, and then the next paragraph he says that income affects their work