He addresses the difference in educational development of low income families verses high income families over the summer. The income gap made little to no difference during the school year, but over the summer there was a huge difference. The more well off families took their kids to the library, sent to them to camp, engaged them in things that allowed them to continue to grow and develop. The lower income kids may have had a lot of fun over the summer, but came back to school behind the kids who had continued to develop.
— Joel, writing about Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. I find that little tidbit fascinating. One of those, “Of course. That makes total sense”-type things that I’d never thought of before.
