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AHAHA thats a hilarious picture. Honestly I feel like when it comes to education, it is really hard to force people to do something they dont want to. The way our society is these days kid emulate people who may have never even stepped foot in a class room. As unfortunate as it sounds with out proper guidance children walk around and just expect money to fall into their laps. It's sad but true, you can bring a horse to water but you can't make that horse drink it. You can fund schools as much as you want, if the kids enrolled in the school have no will to participate, who catches the blame? The government? The parent? Or the kid? That's how I see it anyway. Kids in foreign countries have it almost built into their DNA that schooling is the proper road to a successful life. Kids in our country at least some of them just don't see it that way.
No we are not! The education system in these two nations are more focused. In India and China the people are struggling to get out of poverty. Becoming an engineer, becoming a scientist, is a passport out of it- You'll be much better off than your parents, and be better respected by society… That does not exist in the USA, we we feel that we can become millionaires without completing college or high school, ie Gurbaksh Chahal and Mark Zuckerberg
AHAHA thats a hilarious picture. Honestly I feel like when it comes to education, it is really hard to force people to do something they dont want to. The way our society is these days kid emulate people who may have never even stepped foot in a class room. As unfortunate as it sounds with out proper guidance children walk around and just expect money to fall into their laps. It's sad but true, you can bring a horse to water but you can't make that horse drink it. You can fund schools as much as you want, if the kids enrolled in the school have no will to participate, who catches the blame? The government? The parent? Or the kid? That's how I see it anyway. Kids in foreign countries have it almost built into their DNA that schooling is the proper road to a successful life. Kids in our country at least some of them just don't see it that way.
ReplyDeleteNo we are not! The education system in these two nations are more focused. In India and China the people are struggling to get out of poverty. Becoming an engineer, becoming a scientist, is a passport out of it- You'll be much better off than your parents, and be better respected by society… That does not exist in the USA, we we feel that we can become millionaires without completing college or high school, ie Gurbaksh Chahal and Mark Zuckerberg
ReplyDeleteyeah that was the point i was trying to get across. I don't mean all the kids in this country are bums, just some of them.
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