... is what happened to my brother Alex. Back when Alex started high school, he wasn't motivated to study. He was, however, motivated to hang out with his friends and have fun. That all changed during his sophomore year. At that time, my other older brother Thomas had just gotten into Stanford, so one weekend Alex went up to visit him. Thomas ... an exemplary student. That's why it's so important for people to understand that the biggest thing missing in our school system is motivation. Writing essays, taking math tests, and studying monotonous facts for history tests can seem so boring to ...

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... do but have to in order to get a passing grade. I can compare this to my own experiences because I've always loved hands on work. I've never liked writing papers, taking tests, or doing classwork. I would always slack off when given classwork, and I wasn't the only one. Classmates wouldn't do their work either until the teacher would walk around or therefore we ... 't teach useful material. This reminds me of the recent science classes I've taken over the years where we were not allowed to do actual experiments, only bookwork which took the fun away from the class. The integrating functi...

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