What role does fear play in your motivation to do well in school? Do you think people work hard because they are interested and see the value of the subject matter, or because they are afraid of the consequences of bad grades?
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Fear plays a huge role for motivation to do well in school. Kids are scared of coming home with bad grades and how it might upset their parents and the consequences they might face for getting the bad grade. For example not being able to hang out with friends over the weekends. Kids also just want to do well so they can have a successful future. they don't care about the information they are learning about. they just focus on what ever they are learning about at that time and then forget about it after they have taken the test on it. No one is really motivated to enjoy their school work anymore, they are just scared of the future consequences they might face if they don't do well in school.
i agree with annie. fear motivates the majority of our school population today. Students now are placed in a much more stressful environment where there is a huge price put on succeeding and doing well in school. It not only affects the pressure that parents put on their children, but also relates to so much of your future. i've always been told that if i don't do well in school, that i won't get into a good college, which will give me fewer options for careers. This places a large amount of pressure based off of fear onto the shoulders of students.
I agree with the previous two posts. I think that fear is the bigger motivator. I believe the biggest reason children work hard in school is so they will be able to get into a good college. Then, they eventually want to get a sucessful career. It is installed in our brains that if we don't get good enough grades we wouldn't be able to go to good colleges or get good jobs. Right or wrong, I don't think children value any of the information they take in during school. Like Annie said, they forget most of it after the test is over. In some cases a child might love learning in a specific class or school in general but the average child is trying to make it through the day in school. That is why I believe that fear of bad grades causes students to work more of the time than interest in the subject.
I agree with Annie. Fear is definitely a huge factor in motivating students to do well in our school today. However, fear only takes one so far. the true hardworking, diligent and sucessful students are truly intrested in the subject matter. if a student is actually interested by the subject, they will strive to do there best. if a student is only motivated by fear, they may just do enough to make everyone else happy.
Fear is massive when deciding whether to do your homework when you go home every night. The subjects in school may be interesting, but to make you want to go home so you can do the assignment, would have to make the work be your dream. No subject in school has ever made me want to do the homework, and I think I can say that's the same for a lot of other kids. I agree with Annie when she states that keeping your parents happy is a huge aspect of why you do your homework and try to get good grades in school. Getting the good grades in school allows you to do what you want to do in the future where you will want to do the work because it is what inspires you in life.
I agree with everyone whose posted above, as fear is a major factor, especially for us who want to get high paying jobs. However, what I've noticed is that those who don not really look for the future tend to not care about their school work. This lack of fear can transition into little school work. However, there are very few cases when people do well in school without caring about the future, but in general, its fear about the future that motivates people.
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Jeff has a really good point. I personally don't aspire to be a teacher of any of the subjects I am learning in school or a scientist or writer or anything that has to do with highschool. But the reason I do homework and study for tests is because I know that when I am older and find my dream job my grades better be good enough or I probably won't be happy for the remainder of my life. As a young student sometimes you don't quite realize how important having a good job is. But many of the kids living in this town wouldn't be here if their parents didn't have a really good job with a really fat salary.
I think everyone pretty much hit the nail on the head. There are some people that naturally have a thirst for knowledge. But in general, most kids including me work hard in school out of fear. In this country, those who are the smartest, or do the best in school gain an edge in the adult world. As Americans most of us want to live the dream and make the most money we possible can, right or wrong it is reality. Because grades are directly related to salary, we all know that we must try our hardest in school if we want to reach our greatest potential in life.
Inspiration, the
gift to be honored without
fear and doubt in mind.
-an imaginative haiku
Fear is a large part of the machine that turns human and the need to work. It is the largest of the "cogs" that turn. It can either tell us that "Thanks to this grade, I'll be okay!" Or: "Crap, I'm doomed for the rest of my life". Pressure is a large issue in school, as it is necessary to be good at sports, good looking, smart, etc.. Fear keeps us motivated, but to what end? A German proverb says that "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is". This, in respect, is true, as a single grade will not destroy your life. However, the wolf certainly seems diabolical.
Innovation and inspiration, however, move civilization forward. While fear does so in the short term; example, Hilter's scientists has been said to almost create anti-gravity technology (highly speculated). But what does that amount to?
Nothing.
Inspiration is the "cog" that powers the darned machine. It needs to keep moving, so humans don't fall into a state of insanity.
I agree with everyone who has posted so far. Fear is a major contribution to doing well in school. If people were to see there lives in the future and they were not happy it would be the fear of this coming true that would drive them to do better. People can also be motivated by setting a goal for themselves in life. This may work for some people who know what they want to do with their life. Most people in high school do not know what they want to be when they grow up so the fear of living a tough financial life is enough to drive them.
I agree with Annie. Fear is what motivates people to do well in school. Fear is the most primal insinct we, and all animals have. Fear is what dictates nearly every aspect of our lives. You o to school bcause if you don't you will get acrap job and make no money. You take a shower because you areafraid of smelling dirty or that others will see you as unclean. You brush your teeth because you're afraid of getting cavaties. And you buy the cloths that will make you look good, because if you don't ook presentable, no one will talk to you. Fear is what makes kids get good grades, because kids don't fear the grade ost, they fear what reprecussions will result because of them. The same things that make us do good in school make us conform to whatever society tells us to conform to. Think about it, when you see a commercial for some acneproduct or something, they arent saying how good their product is, they are telling you what will happen if you don't buy their product. Fear sells, fear moulds, fear controls.
Fear plays a large role in our society in getting people to do things they wouldn’t normally do. For instance when people bring up the fear teachers and parents place on there kids and how it is un fair. I feel like that we do our work at school because we as students are afraid of the consequences that might a cure. Even I am afraid of getting a bad grade because their is no worse feeling of getting back a test and it is absolutely horrible and the first thoughts coming into your head are what will my parents say? It is completely unfair on how much pressure us as students are put threw in order to live up to our own parents expectations.
I agree with Lauren. Fear plays a huge role to do well in school. Kids are stressed out with their everyday lives and they have school and homework on top of that to keep them stressed. Students do the least amount of work possible so they can get by. Very rarely students are interested in the topic they are learning about. They take the test pass, and totally forget about the topic untill they have their final or their midterm. Kids are scared to come home with a bad grade, because they know their parents will be upset and they will lose priviliges to their social life.
I believe that people already have goals when they enter school. These goals have been produced by inspiration. The completion of these goals are top priority, and because school can hinder one's ability to do so, it incurs fear. Fear is born from the possibility of not being able to bring one's goals into fruition. In this way, people work as hard as they must in order to meet their particular goals.
I agree with everyone that has posted so far, I particularly agree with Julian when he says that at the beginning we all had some form of goals and that school hinders our ability to accomplish them. Everyone that has posted has mentioned a fear of the consequence of showing bad grades to our parents. This shows that we all aim to meet our parent’s expectations. The fear for not doing so is what makes us work and study all of those nights. If you are one of the kids whose parents don’t care about your grades then one motive is for your future. Since we were young authority figures have beat into our heads that if we don’t get good grades then you won’t go to a good collage and if that doesn’t happen then you won’t do well in life. The combined fears of those two things are enough to make any student work hard, purely out of fear.
I agree with Nick. I think that kids do well in school because they are afraid of getting a bad grade. They are driven by the fear of getting a bad grade and of what others might think of them. Kids are also driven by their parents to do well in school as well. I think that Annie makes a good point by saying that kids do not remember much of the material that they learned after the test. If there was no fear of not being successful in life if your grades are bad then a majority of students will be failing most of their classes.
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