Responsibilty
Professor Wiesenfeld is right. Kids today are expecting too much for free. They don't put in the efort, and when the results are shown they aren't happy with them. When college starts students should be mature enough to take responsibilty for their grades.
Kids should start getting serious about schoolwork in high shcool. That way, by the time they are in college they won't get sursprised by their bad frades. The smiley faces and "Terrific" stickers should stop by middle school. That will make the students more mature by exposing them to more realistic grading.
It should also be the same way in discipline. Rewarding someone too much for acting like a normal person is going to have bad side effects later on in life. If someone helps and old lady across the street and she says, "Thank you," will they be dissappointed if she doesn't give them something?
Students don't realize the gravity of the situation. Good grades mean getting a degree. Degrees will put you in a job that someone who mey be just as skilled as you but withou a degree, will be knocked out of. The long-term effects could be prizes, raises, and feeling good.
There isn't much that's going to free in the real world so colege is a perfect time to teach people to not depend on freebies. They have to take control of their life and work for good grades.
