1. "It's possible, of course, that once a student reaches adolescence, those skills and habits are no longer teachable. It may be that, at that point, you either have them or you don't, and if you have them, you're likely to graduate from college, and if you don't, you're not."
2. The thought that certain people are born unfit for college and will never be fit for college is rather off putting. It seems discouraging to the students who don't fit those standards, to be told that they're simply not cut out for a higher education, and that any attempts to pursue one are destined to end in failure. It's this notion that is helping to foster apathy towards college in students.
3. I'm not smart. I'm clever, and that's about enough to convince people that I'm smart when I'm really, really not. College is for the hardworking, the focused, and the organized. Organized is not my middle name. It's Danger. Staying on top of things and keeping them straight in my head has never been my strong suit, and in college, you fly without a safety net. If you're disorganized, that's it for you. On paper, I seem like one of those people who just isn't graduation material. A lot of people in my life have accepted that, and for a while, so did I, but I think that people are always capable of change. They always have a chance to improve themselves and show the world that the statistics that classify them as dropouts are wrong.
4. There are examples of prominent and glaring contradictions to this belief, some of which were discussed later in the text, but what can be done to more greatly spread the truth that you cannot classify students with different skills as dropouts before they even begin?
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