Thursday, February 21, 2008

"Mind Over Muscle"-questions

1. Brooks says that girls do better in school because woman are better students than men, girls are more attentive, girls have higher grades in every subject, and girls are less likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability.
2. I would say yes girls are better equipped for the future because girls are more organized and they are doing better in school than boys are.
3. Brooks thinks that this means that in the future there will be far more female college graduates than there will be male graduates.
4. I think what Brooks means by that quote is that in 30 years everyone will be old-fashioned and it will be very different in the future from how it is now in our time.
5. Some solutions that Brooks offers is that they should have an honest discussion about any differences between the males and the females, they should figure out why poor girls who move to middle-class schools do better but then poor boys who move there don't to well at all, and they should absorb every book at the bookstore because women like to read totally different things then men. I think that some of these plans might be able to work but maybe not all of them.

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