QR Chapter 10

This chapter seems to relate to chapter 7 in that it is trying to give students a reason to learn. It also talks about giving students goals to achieve and helping them set their own goals. It pains me to see that this isn't a practice that students take upon themselves anymore. When I was in school my goal was to graduate and get out of there so I could get on with real life and college. Now Students goal is to just get out of there by any means necessary, whither it be dropping out, getting expelled, or just stop showing up. This is a problem because systematically the system eventually gives up on students who can't pass, once students reach a certain age they can't participate in sports, they can't attend school any more and they have to pursue their own education. But why would they pursue that education if the educational system has already given up on them? this makes it very hard for teachers to take the needed time to insure learning and not memorizing.