Something's Brewing in the Minds of Students...Not Likely...Yet.

Now, don't get me wrong...I love education. Actually, I completely believe I'm one of a few students (say 2 out of every 10 people) that enjoys going to school each day and learning something new. Education is pretty important to all of us, but who really is passionate about it? I'd still continue to argue that I am. It's becoming a problem in schools that most students just don't care too much about the opportunities they're being handed. This issue needs to be dealt with before education reverts back to its primitive days when everyone was crammed into a single room. Who wants that?



I enjoy being a student that's passionate about learning and I know many others that feel the same way. But for every one of us, there are more than three times as many others that feel the exact opposite. They either want the education but don't want to put in the work or they shun education altogether. There can be huge consequences if the numbers of those types of students continues to increase. What's in store for all of us when the number becomes 9 in 10 students not dedicated to the education they can receive? Even if you aren't as passionate as myself or someone else you actually know, do you really feel like sitting by and watching education revert, rather than progress?



It's in my beliefs that there should be more and more teachers passionately combating this regression in order to save what's been lost in education. You may not see any of this as a regression in education, but I certainly do. And don't take my beginning sentence of this paragraph as a negative one. All teachers must be passionate about being a teacher because they did all the work to become one. This doesn't mean, however, that they care about the opinions of their students. They could enjoy teaching students, but if those same students aren't passionate about learning, the teacher may just disregard it. This disregard, however, only fuels the feeling and spreads it to others.



Also, more students themselves must deal with this issue. Us "passionates" have the responsibility to kick everyone else "into gear". You may think I believe that I'm above others, but that's not the case at all. On a level of passion for education, I do believe there's a division in passionate and unpassionate students. However, this does not indicate that any one from either group is smarter than the other. Intelligence has nothing to do with this. This revolves more around one's drive to learn and their level of interest.



So, I simply believe that students should be more involved and passionate about education than most are these days. Since education is no longer a luxury as it was in the past, everyone must see it as more of a right, which means it could be disregarded as any other right might be. We all have the right to free speech, but how many of us actually use it to incite change? Anyone else see my point?