This isn't a problem of the ivy leagues (or any college, the one I attend included). The problem is that society makes everyone think that they're the best at everything. Thinking "I couldn't possibly have anything to talk about with this 'common man'" is just an extension of this arrogance.
People don't unlearn to relate to people in good Colleges, they just never knew in the first place.
Edited to add: LOTS (if not most) of people at 'elite' Colleges know how to relate to 'average' people.
At the end of sophomore year, the tutors at the college decide whether you belong there. Hubris is probably a strong reason for kicking out a student, though over two years humility is strengthened in most.
Exactly. I don't think I've ever attended a graduation at any level where the graduating class wasn't referred to as "the future" or the best and the brightest.
It tends to be at university when one meets honest-to-goodness exceptionally intelligent people that we first learn our own limitations.
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This isn't a problem of the ivy leagues (or any college, the one I attend included). The problem is that society makes everyone think that they're the best at everything. Thinking "I couldn't possibly have anything to talk about with this 'common man'" is just an extension of this arrogance.
People don't unlearn to relate to people in good Colleges, they just never knew in the first place.
Edited to add: LOTS (if not most) of people at 'elite' Colleges know how to relate to 'average' people.
There is at least one college which attempts to beat the arrogance out of you (see don rag), St. John's College. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Johns_College,_U.S.)
At the end of sophomore year, the tutors at the college decide whether you belong there. Hubris is probably a strong reason for kicking out a student, though over two years humility is strengthened in most.
Exactly. I don't think I've ever attended a graduation at any level where the graduating class wasn't referred to as "the future" or the best and the brightest.
It tends to be at university when one meets honest-to-goodness exceptionally intelligent people that we first learn our own limitations.