noun. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations.

noun. An inclination or a habit.

noun. A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.

noun. a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations

"Eli, helpfully, makes it clear where the difference in mindset is when he discusses parents in the inner city who have the fortitude to raise children who can actually make an effort to tale advantage of an education: the fact that they possess the parenting fortitude their ghetto-peers do not is for me no greater emergency than that of the “left behind”."

attitude  mental attitude  

agenda  ideology  mentality