Poor Education? Blame the Students!

There is an old adage; "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it". So too you can put a kid in a classroom but you can't make him learn anything.

Critics have been blaming the teachers, school administrations, society--everybody except the ones who refuse to buckle down, get themselves motivated, and learn what they need to learn. There are many examples of kids from other countries excelling in our school environments so why can't our kids do the same and learn?

In order to solve a problem you need to identify the problem. Why are our kids deciding not to learn and fail and drop out of school? For some reason they choose the course to failure. Does our society fail to provide good examples to motivate our kids to learn? Or are there too many distractions competing with education. Maybe the kids themselves are competing amongst themselves for attention? After school jobs, dating, cars, iPods, you name it there are many distractions that are much more interesting than school work.

So it may be something other than money, school administrators, teachers, etc. that is to blame for failure in educating our kids--it might be the kids themselves who are to blame.