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Easier to understand: Hogwarts.

Harry Potter was pried from that little dusty cupboard closet beneath the stairs and sent to somewhere to reach success.

Send kids that don't have a good home life to someplace where the adults care and have the resources to see that they do succeed.

>>mjevan+(OP)
Boarding schools aren’t popular in the USA. Where they are used for poverty reasons (eg China), racism is easily involved (Uighur kids are more often shunted to boarding schools than Han kids in xinjiang). We also tried this with Native Americans in the 20th century and that turned out really bad.

>>mjevan+(OP)
"Hogwarts" reference aside, you are right that extremely structured environments (boarding schools are what I assume you are alluding to) can actually bring out the best in young bright people, especially young men, and it's unfortunate that we've basically done away with that in the United States as a way to educate children.

>>seanmc+I2
That turned out really bad because only the problem (political problem) kids went there, and they also were often privately run and had very lax oversight.

>>mjevan+(OP)
Harry Potter was a "chosen one" who was given special attention by his teachers. I don't think his teachers gave the same attention to other students, who didn't have a thunder-shaped scar in their brow and couldn't speak you-know-who's name without wincing.

Rather, I think it was Hermione Granger that embodied the role model of the student from an underprivilged background who works hard to achieve academic success.