College tours prove eye-opening for low-income students

Applying to College
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I often tell my girls that all you need to succeed in life is duct tape and kindness. After reading a recent commencement speech by Chief Justice John Roberts, I think I’ll add bad luck to the list.

The speech, given to his son’s ninth-grade class, is getting clicks online not just because the head of the U.S. Supreme Court quotes Bob Dylan and Socrates, but because Roberts offers some unconventional wisdom.

‘I hope that you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice,’ he says. ‘I hope that you will suffer betrayal, because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.’

Instead of wishing the privileged young men good luck, he wishes them, at least from time to time, bad luck, ‘so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved, either.’" …

Observations.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/College-tours-prove-eye-opening-for-low-income-11275209.php

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In essence:

The article was about a bus load of super bright low income kids from Houston who toured colleges in the northeast. The program they are a part of in Houston is working to expose them to the colleges that traditionally have the best financial aid packet.

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In a chaotic world that we live in today, this is a very sweet and hopeful article.