Mind Over Muscle David Brooks Analysis

David Brooks uses the tone of empowerment to show that women can surpass men in their intellect and education. Women mature way before men and even then they don't have the rights as men do in society. Women tend to do better in education than men as in college they have a more successful record than men. At first men had the highest graduation rate in society in many of the top colleges but now women and men are head to head but they are still looked down upon. Women are still looked to be the everyday housewife when men go out and produce for the families, why is it not the other way around if women are equal both genders shall share the role in the home where both take care and produce for their families as long with that they have jobs …show more content…
They contain a will to go further than their expectation in school to outperform others. David Brooks says in the article Mind over Muscle that, “In surveys, kindergarten teachers report that girls are more attentive than boys and more persistent at tasks”. David Brooks uses the tone of empowerment to show that women exceed in education, learning and they pass men in their intelligence. The author wants to explain that boys and girls have different learning abilities and that there education values are different as well. Boys at an early age tend to not want to go to school and learn skills that will help them in the future and girls gain the ability to stay still and listen to what the teachers are trying to say to them. This abilities can lead and effect both boys and girl in different ways. The article states, “through elementary school, girls are less likely to be asked to repeat a grade. They are much less likely to be diagnosed with learning disability”. Boys tend to acquire a disability that affect the way they learn, girls tend to not get it as much as boys do. There might be more stress on boys in school to learn than the girls to do the same and that might cause the boys to have a melt down and cause the disability to learn. There can also be change in the they learn in …show more content…
They possess and have the required necessity to get them into the a program and to further than their expectation of themselves. According to David Brooks, “ Women are mostly to enroll in college and they will have a better application”. Also that, “Girls are much more likely to be involved in school paper or yearbook, to be electected to student government and to be members of academic clubs”. This shows that girls are more productive in schools and they thrive to excel in their education. Women have more to show on their college application than boys do because boys tend to play more sports in schools than taking up classes. Girls want to prove that they can do it all in school and surpass men in intellect. David Brooks states that, “they are more likely to take advanced placement courses and the hardest math courses, and are more likely to take to be straight-A students”. This proves that girls are smarter than boys are in learning a subject and that girls want to do the best they can in schools to have a successful life and career. Being successful proves to others that women can do it all by having a productive career and supporting