If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
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