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What Causes Lack of Motivation in Students?

January 19, 2017

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Motivation is the single, most important aspect in life. It is what bridges intention to action. It is the first difference between dreams and reality.

However, there persists a plague. Within the U.S, education, at the very least locally, a deficiency in extracurricular activities. The blame is often hoisted on top of the student body and they are declared to be lazy, but another question remains: Why should they?

Much of our interests are often deferred, and athletics takes center stage in budget and attention. Our technology and infrastructure within public schools regularly fall behind much of the developed world and colleges are increasingly focusing on the business opportunity a student brings versus the activities and accomplishments of the applicant.

In a setting where the ability to pay is treated higher than accomplishment in all but the most prestigious schools, of which the vast majority of students could not afford without special or rare circumstances to help, why would so many students trade their personal time for rare payoffs and unappreciation?

Many of these prospects that plague the public education system and higher education in the U.S create bleak and daunting images of school. It is constantly reminding the students of the steep and bleak challenges that await them, but the strained system.

Sure, perhaps a degree of laziness is involved. Maybe, a dash of indetermination, but while I can’t speak for every situation, the stacked and calculated system holds itself in the worries of most students. Even if the student is not aware of the direct correlation, these prospects exist in our minds when we are working jobs for pay, worrying about college coat and when we complain of the environment we frequent every day.

Perhaps when we reform, things will improve. Extracurricular activities will have its meaning return. Worries and complaints will be met and sedated. When things grow in cohesion, things will tend to stick.

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