Analysis Of Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem For Colleges

Enlightenment is an eternal struggle the human existence ventures out of their skin to find, as if it is lost. When most people ponder how to go about becoming enlightened, visions of voyaging to far, mystical destinations, encountering insightful gurus, and discovering a true part of oneself… perhaps finding God pop into their heads, all while others guide and teach them how to do what they are supposed to be figuring out single-handedly. Although that is accurate on a large scale, becoming enlightened is also as simple as educating oneself by using tools, including teachers, without being handed the solutions to any troubling issues. No one is cognizant of being enlightened in the process, or maybe, even after. But why explain most other

Peter Gray PhD. defines the upcoming wave of students in his essay, Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges as “a generation of young people who have not been given the opportunity to learn how to solve their own problems.” Much can be disagreed on in his claim, such as the idea that opportunity is all around us, and that steps can be taken at any time to become sapient from struggling experiences. Getting started is the most vexing step of becoming enlightened, often because students don’t know why they are taking time to become sages. Alina Tugend explains in Redefining Success and Celebrating the Ordinary that the goal of enlightenment “isn’t to settle for a life on the couch…, but rather to make sure you aspire to goals because they are important to you, not because you want to impress your parents, your community, or your friends.” By being conscientious of the genuine reasons underlying the hunger for enlightenment, the path is crystal clear for what boundaries need to be crossed and what needs to be learned from the milestones that have been reached at that

Negligence towards enthusiasm in learning leads to acts in cheating with “dogmas and formulas,... mechanical tools designed for reasonable use–or rather abuse–of his natural gifts,” which are the fetters of an everlasting nonage,” according to Immanuel Kant in What Is Enlightenment?. Minding what is important to gain from an experience deemed a failure is prime key, which many students are not aware of the significance it holds. In a college’s academic setting, Gray. exposes that “some [teachers] said they had grown to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices,” in Declining Student Resilience. In another account by Amy Chua in Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, a student “was purposely working herself into a frenzy, because she was secretly afraid she couldn’t do it.” Talking oneself out of the definite capability of mastering the topic only shifts the enlightenment to a dead