The dominant society, popular culture, Aristotelian-influenced conception of the human mind is that in a normally occurring situation not all minds are created equal.That is, it is assumed that intelligence or cognitive ability is unevenly distributed among the species accounting for the existence of social class. In other words, itis assumed that the rich are rich because of their superior intelligence and the poorare poor because of their biologically determined deficiencies. It is therefore often assumed that students who come from poverty are carriers of inferior or substandard genes and/or culture.