Ivy_League_Education

Ivy League Education Is there any cost too high for success' According to David Brooks, the author of “The Organization Kid”, America’s youth are hard at work striving to achieve. These leaders of tomorrow progess step-by-step towards their ambitious goals; but they do so in a society that has molded achievers, with the cost of character. In his article, Brooks brings to light the question of whether morals are sacrificed as a result of increased emphasis on achievement and success. Growing up during a period of relative political, economical, and cultural stability in America, Brooks maintains that the elite have acquired a changed values system. Rather than being taught to be individuals, they have learned to be conformists. Rather than challenging authority, they accept it without question. This generation of achievers has been programmed to please since early childhood when activities were planned specifically for enrichment and development. Brooks sheds some light on the direction in which the country is going: “The Romantics—and the neo-Romantics of the 1960s and 1970s—thought that children were…natural beings, as yet uncontaminated by the soul-crushing conventions of adult society. Hence they should be left free to explore, to develop their own brooks, character, achievement, youth, point, own, one, country, article, america’s, achievers, work, values, towards, success, society, rather, question, moral, light, lifebrooks, learn, leaders, enrichment, enormous, emphasis, elite, direction, cost, children, been, american, activities, achieve, accomplishment