"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." - Proverbs 22:6
And the Love for Learning doesn't begin with the adoption of new academic policies. It is indeed a solution such as higher standards of qualificaiton so that only the most studious can graduate. It is not free education; not only it would raise taxes to our hurt, but what good is it when most kids are apathetic, but it begins with a genuine love for it.
First it begins with Parents who instills in their children a love for learning.
Children shouldn't just be told to learn, that's not teaching; but to be nurtured into it. They must be inspired into learning, and learning different topics, so that they not only have a working knowledge in their choice of subject but a broad range of topics. As parents we should strive to discipline our kids in moral ethics, physical activity, patriotism, and in intellegence.
Second, it is up to the child,
The problem, as I see it, is that we've become a generation that loves pleasure than anything else. This is not helped by how easy it is to get what we want. We can have an instant meal and not have to learn how to cook. We can order online, have it there within weeks, and not learn patience. We have, at our fingertips, anything we can lay our eyes on from the world wide web, and not go to the Library.
We've become a generation that plays video games and Netflix and Youtube bingers, for hours on end, when we could have spent the majorithat time playing outside, helping our neighbors, reading books in the library and at home. No wonder we lag behind, because we're masters at wasting our time rather than mastering and building ourselves.
Certainly it is not totally our fault as some of us were just told to do well on our school, but the deciosn is left to us, We can either do more than just obey the orders of our parents (in which we just do enough of it to get by), or we can proactively better ourselves.
It is up to us.
And the one thing you can't do, is to tell your children to learn when you've not done it yourselves.
That is hypocrisy.
We should do the things we want our children to do; and that is a mark of good leadership. It is a leadership by example, rather than "Do what I say, and not as I do".
Source:
Opinion:"How American Students Truly Rank in International Testing" by John Ture https://observer.com/2018/01/how-american-students-truly-rank-in-international-testing/
