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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot discount that there also is some learned behavior that is different from public to private. One key difference I’ve seen is the idea that there are constraints, this can be both good and bad. Public school kids are informally taught that there are constraints everywhere. This comes from limited budgets and rationing of services, like art, music, etc. When your mindset is based on the expectation of constraints it can affect the choices you make and conception of what is possible. In contrast, private school kids are informally taught that the world is what you make it, that the only constraint is you. This can lead to higher anxiety and depression. It can also lead to poor choices of major or career paths. Sometimes kids are affluent but not generationally rich enough to make these choices which is where you end up with stories about the dentists kid that went to Brown, majored in Art History and is now living in the basement while applying for unpaid internships at museums after college. But under the right conditions, you get the Gates or Zuckerberg’s or whatever that can take risks with this self belief that they can do it because the world is theirs for the taking all along. [/quote]

The idea of this is somewhat true.  Public school kids informally learn that there exist obstacles in all paths and are able to a degree to assess if they have the capability and even desire to overcome these obstacles.  In elite privates,  many kids do not see those same obstacles because they are removed for them and thereby never encountered  or because they have the means by which to easily remove or overcome said obstacle

For example starting a business.  The first set of challenges may be raising capitol or setting up the business from a legal standpoint.  A typical middle class kid may need to first find an attorney, determine the cost of the attorney setting up the business, and figure out an array of sources by which to acquire capital.  However, a student at an elite private school may have a parent who is a law firm partner or has a family friend lawyer who would be willing to provide the legal services free of charge.  Additionally, their parents, or friends, or friends parents may be willing to invest the initial startup capital.  In this example, the challenges were the same, however each kids perception of the challenges is going to be different based on their ability and/or amount of work to overcome[/quote]

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