On Thursday, we talked about how education pays and we had to create a claim about one of the charts. For the group that I was in, we made the claim that because asian males make the most earnings and get the most education, that it is in their culture to work hard and be the best in education.
Compared to the Asian culture, America is very spoiled and lazy, even statistics show that. If it was pushed more or a part of American culture to work hard and be the best in education, we could be doing just as well or even better than Asians. Which goes back to the support of family and schools. If the importance of education was pushed more by our leaders, families, and teachers, students would think of this as "the ONLY way"; this would become a part of our culture.
I think we blame a lot of our problems on someone else pushing us and someone else making us want to learn like our parents and teachers. In the end it is our own problem. Students in America need to stop depending on someone to push them to do good in school, they need to WANT that for themselves and push themselves. Asians WANT education and WANT to push themselves that is why they are doing so much better. We need to rearrange our priorities.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bre.... American's need to stop thinking that everything is going to be handed to them on a silver platter. I think a lot of our education and life factors lie in our own hands. We make our own decisions about what we are going to do with it. Whereas Asians are pushed, but I believe they are more influenced within there government than there family, where we are opposite. Thus, if our parents force us to do something we don't want to do we tend to not do it, whereas if you government is telling you what to do... there's not much disagreeing with them, you just do it.
ReplyDeleteIn America we don't put enough emphasis on education and thats why we have fallen behind the world. Students in Asia are very good in school because they are made to do only school when they are young. In America our focus is on sports and becoming millionaires. America needs to shift its priorities back to education and be on top like they were 30 years ago.
ReplyDeleteIn high school, I had a friend whom's mother was a immigrant from Vietnam. Her mother pushed her to be good in school. She said that her mother expected A's from her and B's were not that accepted. I feel as if my parents never pushed me to do so well, I had to push myself. In American culture, not many individuals push themselves to exceed what is expected of them and that is why this country has fallen behind other countries.
ReplyDeleteI know where I work a lot of teenagers want to be able to stand around and not have to do anything in order to get paid. Laziness is absolutely part of this generation and is taking a toll on the next generations to come. The American Dream was to be able to work and get what you deserved because immigrants coming from other countries could not get the wages they deserved for the work they offered. Maybe we need to redefine the American Dream for today; To be able to get paid for doing nothing because we think we deserve it. Other cultures do not have the Original American Dream thought, they work to secure the well-being of their family and the community they live in. Our culture has forgotten that because we are focused on ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI agree that if we got the mind set of "its the only way" then more American students would succeed in school. Science and math is hard for Americans. It isn't as hard for other cultures. Why is that? Probably because they are learning harder material at a younger age. Should we follow those footsteps to make American kids smarter and in turn making the population as a whole smarter and easier to employ? Probably so.
ReplyDeleteI also agree, I think that if we were brought up to believe that we HAVE to do good in school American students would be doing so much better. That's why educators need to step up and let kids know that education is the most important thing and you really do NEED to succeed to do well in life.
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