Powerful Things To Do When You Are Discouraged As A Ksu Student

 There are many reasons a student can lose
focus in school.
It can be bad grades that will discourage them to be
inactive and to rebel. It
can be the environment that can be stifling and
suffocating for the students.
It can be the fact that many of them don’t find it easy
to see the meaning in
their struggles in school.
Some students excel under pressure, and there are
those who crumble
beneath it. It’s easy to praise the students who
continuously work hard, but
let’s try not to berate those who find it difficult to
focus.
When students get tired of school, they find all means
to take the shortcut. This is why numerous students
end up copying their homework and plagiarizing their
essays. This is why websites such as Bestessays.com
thrive. They offer services that will ease the difficulties
of student, making it tempting for them to sign up and
buy customized papers. Technology has definitely
made cheating a lot easier.
It’s not just in the output that students slack off in
school. It ’s in their
mentality that clearly shows their disinterest to learn
and attend classes.
When they start to not care about their grades, it must
be a cause of
concern for teachers.
Instead of lecturing these lost souls, it’s up to
educators and mentors to find
ways on how to lure them back into learning. It can be
through constant
motivation and pep talk. Sometimes, it can be a great
story that will push
them to work harder.
For now, maybe these inspirational quotes on learning
and hard work can do the trick.
 “If you really look closely, most overnight
successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
With the likes of Mark Zuckerberg being the poster boy
of drop-out
billionaires, it’s easy to see why many students seem
to think that they no
longer need school to succeed in life. But closer
inspection shows that their
path to success is muddier than one would expect.
And besides, we can’t all
be Mark Zuckerberg. We can’t all be Steve Jobs. But
students can try to
pave their own way to success and school can help
with that.
“Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their
packages at different times.” – Anonymous
Students can’t help but compare themselves with the
top notchers in class.
While some obviously spend a lot of time studying,
some students barely
study and still manage to get good grades. Then there
are students, who no
matter how hard they try still scramble to get decent
grades. They need to
understand that students have different modes and
strengths in learning, and
sometimes formal education doesn’t work for many
students. But every
student has a talent and a skill that need time to
develop.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways
that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
It’s easy to get disheartened with a failed Math exam,
but it’s just one exam
out of many. A low grade for an English essay may be
discouraging, but
there’s always a next time. What students need to
keep in mind is that
getting bad grades and making mistakes can only lead
to further learning.
There’s always room for growth and time to correct
their mistakes. One
failure doesn’t mean it’s endgame already.
“You can do anything, but not everything.” –
Anonymous
With so many options for young minds to explore and
wander, students are
often pressured to be great in everything. But that’s
not something mere
mortals can do. There’s nothing wrong with being a
Math wizard and finding
difficulty penning a coherent essay. What students can
do is to focus on
what they’re good at and once they’ve mastered this
skill, they can go ahead
and try other things. They’ll feel burned out if they take
too much activities
on their plate all at the same time.
“You measure the size of the
accomplishment
by the obstacles you had to overcome to
reach
your goals.” – Booker T. Washington
There’s a reason why a B+ in a subject you find difficult
seems a lot sweeter
than the easy A+ in your PE class. When you work hard
for something, an
excellent result may not be quick to attain but even a
satisfactory result is
enough to send students in pure bliss.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
Students are often disheartened by bad results, but
giving up without even
finishing their tasks means they won’t even get any
result, besides a failing
mark. It’s always better to give learning a shot before
deeming it as
something they’ll be bad at. They may fail the first
time, but they’ll
eventually get better at it.
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the
chances you miss when you don’t even try.” –
Jack Canfield
To reiterate the earlier point, students miss out more
when don’t even give it
a try. Many students have this mindset that they’ll fail
anyway, so why exert
an effort in studying? But the fact that they don’t even
open their books and
rarely listen to discussions means that they didn’t even
bother giving it a
shot. Efforts may not always reap the best rewards,
but it’s better than
none.
“Tough times never last. But tough people
do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
School is just a part of life. It’s just a phase as crucial
as it may be, and
there’s more learning that will happen once you
graduate from your alma
matter. Don’t think that it’s the end of the line,
because you’re just starting.
School may toughen you up, but you need that to
survive.
So students, keep your chin up because
school isn’t the be-all and end-all
of your life. The difficulties will pass and you
only need to hold on.