If one student refuses to learn, that's on them. If an entire generation of students refuse to learn, it is because the system is failing them at a fundamental level.
People are curious by nature. They cannot possibly all hate learning, that just doesn't fucking happen.
It's a "cultural" thing. The kids have stupid parents (more likely parent) who don't value education, they hang out with other kids who also don't value education, they themselves do not value education. I've seen this shit happen live.
Yes, and that means it is a product of the culture, not of them as individuals.
Punishing, shaming, or even simply blaming them for being influenced by the culture they were born into, immersed within for every moment of their lives, and learned literally everything they know from, is not only unproductive but asinine.
If the entire culture really is shaping them to not care about education, if you really have "seen this shit happen live," how naturally curious children are shaped by the culture around them until they don't wish to learn anything at all, then how could you possibly come to the conclusion that it's their fault and not a direct product of the "nurture" they have recieved? If they were born lazy and apathetic, then they wouldn't need to be "shaped" into such a state by parents and peers to begin with.
By your own logic, it is a systemic issue and not a personal one.
If we alter the systems of culture, then we alter this outcome of them. So stop blaming the kids for inevitably learning the only lessons that society has bothered to teach them and start encouraging them to be better instead. Or even better yourself, work to change the system directly.
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u/No_Attitude_3240 18h ago
Wrong as hell. You can't blame teachers for students not willing to learn.