Entitlement vs. Knowledge

Entitlement is much greater than the level of knowledge. When one person has a high title it influences them to act much differently. They believe they have more power and/or knowledge. Bell Hooks uses the example of her teaching experience at a private predominantly white school such as Yale compared to her teaching experience at a predominantly non white school at a campus in Harlem. She says they both were equally as intelligent but that the entitlement caused their sense of agency to be different. I couldn’t agree more with Hook since you can definitely see it in students that do attend highly known schools such as Yale or Harvard. Some, not all students from highly known schools believe they have it all and that they are the brightest and best of all. I don’t believe it’s a bad thing in any way to have an attitude such as that, but those in urban areas such as Hooks example in Harlem should have the same sense of agency. They don’t because the media portrays that students at Yale are so much greater than students at a college in Harlem. It bothers me when people at an Ivy League school for an example think they are so much greater than a student such as us at UNH. It’s really not the title that matters to me it’s my knowledge that I have and how I choose to use to it whether it’s at a Ivy League school or not. Of course it is extremely hard to get into an Ivy League school but a person’s sense of knowledge should be recognized rather than their entitlement.