Ted Talks - Education

     She speaks the truth. There are many students that can't handle the school work and eventually drop out. I think this video connects with what we have been discussing in class because education plays a huge role in people's lives. With education, people get better jobs and more income as well. This plays along with the passion video and the student from Duncanville High. Students need to be motivated, we need, no, crave that motivation to keep us going. Many students give up when they receive a terrible grade on a test or exam and feel like they can't compete or are not good enough, or have an excuse to why they did so poorly. This woman though, encouraged a student that got two points out of twenty that they can do better. That student was then filled with motivation and wanted to do much better. If students are constantly put down then don't expect them to get up anytime soon. Students victimize themselves. It's true, we always blame someone or something else and never blame ourselves. Say you have a test to study for on Monday morning. A student has the weekend to study and prepare for that test, but instead they decide to go out and hang out with friends or play video games all day long. When test day comes, and find out that they failed, they either blame the teacher for not teaching them well enough, complain that the test was too hard, or maybe that they didn't have the time to study when they actually did but chose not to. If teachers can't motivate students and students can't motivate themselves, then who will?