8/19/2019 Life Liberty and Pursuit of Aptitude By

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/life-liberty-and-pursuit-of-aptitude-by 1/1

Life Liberty and Pursuit of Aptitude by: Walter Kirn

Exceling on the SATs doesn’t guarantee that you will exceed in life

People who co!e fro! a lower"inco!e bac#ground tend to wor# harder than those who are of a

higher socioecono!ic status

$ust because Sonia Sot!ayor’s SAT scores did not represent her scholarly abilities does not !ean

that the SAT does not ade%uately represent the other people’s scholarly abilities

The !ore aptitude a young person displays& the !ore li#ely he or she will be successful in life

Syste!s li#e our 'onstitution& should be sub(ect to a!end!ent fro! ti!e to ti!e& since no

definition of !erit lasts fore)er

*ndergraduate courses allow fresh!en and sopho!ores ti!e to decide their correct !a(or by

testing out all core sub(ects

*ndergraduate core is a way to weed out the fresh!en who cannot handle the re%uire!ents that

college de!ands

'opeland

*ndergraduate courses allow the student to be well rounded in #nowledge about the world

around us

'oplin fights against the need to English courses but forgets to !ention that the top s#ill for (ob

e!ploy!ent is in fact writing s#ills