A Mad Man's Rant Options

[EBWonder]

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Why do people always use the I can't reason for not doing something? I understand when somebody says I am not skilled enough to do something or it is not safe to do something, but what happened to the American "can do" spirit? when did we, as a whole, become a bunch of cry babies that refuse to do the things than need to be done. We have come a long way from the days of the Revolutionary War, but it seems to me that we have all but forgotten the words of JFK and Lincoln, that we refuse to do what is hard in favor for what is expedient.

As somebody who wants to see the best in all of the students I teach, what is the motivating factor to make people do what they think they must do? Is there a way to motivate people to take chances in order to succeed? I think we, as a people, have forgotten the lessons of failure that people like Edison and Franklin claim that are so vital to the survival of the human species. I fear that we are our own worst enemies and that we, as a people and as a nation, are doomed.

thoughts?

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[IdlersDream]

You can't blame the people about forgetting words from leaders who said something inspiring once, people should not learn lessons from something someone said 60 years ago, they need to be raised and told and made to want to get things done, you don't get that from reading a speech by a president.

It's not just "this generation" it's just made much more public than it was before. We're also in the odd situation of growing up with new technology and technology made to make small tasks easier, we haven't grown up having do to hard work, if children are lazy the parents need to look at what they did with their child. Did they give them the things they wanted? If they didn't want to do something did they give up and let them not do it? Did they make sure they were taught a good work ethic? If not, well, no wonder they have a lazy kid who doesn't feel they'll make it anywhere.

[EBWonder]

You can't blame the people about forgetting words from leaders who said something inspiring once, people should not learn lessons from something someone said 60 years ago, they need to be raised and told and made to want to get things done, you don't get that from reading a speech by a president.

It's not just "this generation" it's just made much more public than it was before. We're also in the odd situation of growing up with new technology and technology made to make small tasks easier, we haven't grown up having do to hard work, if children are lazy the parents need to look at what they did with their child. Did they give them the things they wanted? If they didn't want to do something did they give up and let them not do it? Did they make sure they were taught a good work ethic? If not, well, no wonder they have a lazy kid who doesn't feel they'll make it anywhere.

I don't blame the people for forgetting; I blame the system for not making it relevant today.

To be all honest, you cannot entirely blame a parent for their child's "laziness" because the parent are doing what thery think is right for the child (even if it isn't). It's the way they were taught to be parents and I understand their struggle.

I know there is no answer to these problems, but I figured that we should have a free rant post, or something like it, where ideas can be and should be thought out. sometimes, solutions come from the most unlikely of places.

As for Presidental inspiration, I think Obama is so concerned about healing the nation that he does not have time for the political ramblings of people who don't understand the completity of the path ahead: Long term vs. Short term fixes.

I may be mad, but, then, who isn't?