remember when
retention today for those in school seems to be very difficult. what has happen to the younger generation, remember when school and learning was important, when taking in information was actually looked at as a good thing.. to help someone keep retention today is more of a challenge then the actual teaching the subject....
Frank, are you saying that students today are different? If so, in what ways and do you have any thoughts about why?
Exactly, especially when their personal life affects them accademically.
Frank is right. Students these days don't have the ambition to go out and work for what they want. They have to be sold on what they want or what is good for them.
Students today seem to have to learn by their mistakes. ie: lost opportunity. Until they dont have a second chance (No reset button in the real world) They then begin to realize that eventually time will run out. Mom & Dad or the job, or opportunity for education wont be available forever!
Why do you think students are that way? What makes them different than students from the past?
Students valued what there parents had to say more than they do now. With the breakdown of the family unit due to technology, both parents having to work, electronic baby sitters, representations of people in movies and tv there is a loss of respect that we had for our elders.
Students today are different. In the past we were taught that hard work pays off. Today it seems that there are no rewards for the individual. We as a society have gone to a group or team mentality. By this I mean that today there is not a clear line between winners and losers. Today everyone is a winner.
One concern that I have with the "everyone is a winner" promotion is that a person who buys into it will be ill-prepared to deal with the inevitable "you can't win them all" life scenario when it arises. Are we as a society actually providing a disservice to those younger folks by encouraging the concept of everyone is a winner?
