Motivation is weak because more students (of all races and economic classes, let it be added) don’t like school, don’t work hard and don’t do well. In a 2008 survey of public high school teachers, 21 percent judged student absenteeism a serious problem; 29 percent cited “student apathy.” The goal of expanding “access” — giving more students more years of schooling — tends to lower educational standards.
- Robert Samuelson, on “education reforms”
For more, read here. (Thanks Jim Cavallero)
Can we haz real education reform?
On being successful:
“When you want to get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” - Eric Thomas
Originally from his YouTube channel.
I told him everything.
About how I’d run to the ends of the earth with you.
About how you could ask me for the sun, and I’d find a way to...
Men need 4 basic things to function at their best:
food. sex. bio-breaks. & sleep.
Helps if he feels like his money is right...