It implies that abilities are simply bestowed from on high, that some students have them and some don’t, and that students have no role to play in developing them.
Can you see the manipulative language here?
a) Intelligence IS simply bestowed, in the same way that height and eye color are. Some people are smart or tall, but more people aren't.
b) Since when has ANYONE on this forum or ANYONE (who is not a crank) claimed that a person has no role to play in developing his talents? This claim is absurd on its face. Yet she uses it in a backhanded way that allows her to deny reality: differences exist, they are real and meaningful, and they aren't going anywhere.
She even manipulates with her obvious claim that hard work is important to develop skills or talents. People have known this since the dawn of toolmaking:
Little Thag, practice your axe-making. Someday you'll need to make them to survive. Yet she makes the statement as though no one had ever noticed that before,
ever.
Seriously, this stuff is transparent.
Sure, it's important to learn from failure and be resilient. But she's not the first person to say that (though she's very good at packaging the idea). But it's also important to accept that differences exist and can't be mindsetted away.
