Blog Prompt 7/2/2011

The blog prompt for today is about MM Lee's statistics on student backgrounds. His statistics show that most children who came from wealthy families would be more successful in life while children who came from broken or poor families would not do as well academically.

MM Lee says that he believes good parents would produce good children who would succeed in life but at the same time also believed that every school should have meritocracy.

However, I believe in the exact opposite. I think that it all goes down to the parents and children themselves, not their financial positions. A rich parent could either spoil the child by working everyday and supplying the child with no end of toys to keep them happy, causing the child to be unsuccessful in life or the parent could take the child in hand, look after him properly and give him a proper education, causing him to be successful later on. The child also has responsibility. If he is willing to learn and hardworking, he can become successful even if he is left on his own, but if he is unwilling to learn at all, even the best tutor cannot make him successful.