Argument Analysis: Good Will Hunting

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Also from the article “At Elite Colleges” it says, “When social mobility goes away, at least two dangerous things can happen. The privileged class that produces most of our nation’s leaders can become complacent enough to foster mediocrity, and less-fortunate segments of our society can become resigned to the notion that hard work will not get them anywhere” (Schmidt, p. 176). I also connected this quote to the movie Good Will Hunting because it reminded me of the scene when Will and his friends went to the bar at Harvard. At the bar, Will had an argument with a privileged man who was smart, but you could argue that he was complacent enough to not to come up with his own arguments and only repeat what he read off books. I also connected this