Really sad after buying Girl Scout cookies.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

166. It's hard to instill the desire to make any effort on a child, when he/she is surrounded...

by kids that are allowed to proclaim that everything and anything is too much effort.

That's interesting about the teacher that taught in Africa. I taught in Spain, and found that kids there are used to reading the books teachers assign, doing their homework, doing practices, and studying. Not only did I not encounter the whining teachers encounter here, but the parents will simply not tolerate whininess from their kids when it comes to studying and doing assignments. Here, it's an everyday thing, the whininess. It's one of the reasons I switched careers. I won't put up with the laziness kids are allowed in this country. It's bad for the kids, and a ridiculous joke for any teacher to try to teach to lazy kids.

I don't really know how these generations will function. I doubt they'll be able to function well.