to school,” this is the same question that I asked my parent very often. The one and only answer that they always gave me were, “ Because it’s your job.” Therefore, if that’s true, shouldn’t students be paid for doing their job? If schools truly want students to be motivated to do well in school, then the schools should be willing to pay the student for their excellent work. Why should students get paid for their superb grade? There are many positive effects of paying students for good grades. From
In William Zinsser’s, “College Pressures,” he talks about one of the pressures plaguing college students is self-induced pressure. I was so determined to write essays of excellence that I made mental errors that brought my grade down. As I have progressed through school writing has been my Achilles heel. I was never fond of writing and always dreaded the idea of writing essays. I was never a strong writer because I did not fully understand the process of writing well-rounded papers. I always considered
teaching along with the fact that it is blatantly expensive. The students going to college will go for four years just to end up with a poor degree and excessive debt. The aspect that is unique to successful higher education is the teaching and how it will be applied to the major the student is going for. Along, with that the quality of the education the students receive, as well as the involvement of the faculty with the students. But where the true problem lies comes before any of that education
culture of everyday lives and we, according to Browne and Brown (2001:3), have seen our popular culture in ourselves. This essay compares the tragic engagements of young Africans with contemporaneous issues relating to culture and popular culture, through the fictional novels of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy (1994), and Kopano Matlwa, Coconut (2007). Particular attention is paid to the stumbling blocks Sozaboy’s Mene and Coconut’s Ofilwe Tlou and Fikile Twala encounter with issues concerning education