The Negative Aspects Of Lifelong Learning

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” a favorite quote of mine by Mahatma Gandhi. When we talk about learning, of course the main topic that we usually hear or heard about is lifelong learning. Lifelong learning means that we should continue to learn and gain more knowledge every day until the day death visits us, even if we already graduated from our middle school or high school, or even graduated from a university. Because of the idea of lifelong learning, students who graduated from high school tend to pursue their study in college, be it a pre-university course or an A-level program. Most of the students that applied for college actually can be said quite genius. They are mostly high-school leavers

An anonymous once said, “A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere until you change it”. This literally explained why students with bad attitude struggled academically. Bad attitude will heavily impact students’ performance, thus preventing them from maximizing their output. Lazy, rude, and procrastinate are some of the bad attitude that will affect the students, as their academic result depends solely on their efforts. Generally, students with superb attitude rarely struggle in their life. Students that have bad attitude during their college years usually adopt it from their former high school. During high school years, they really liked to procrastinate on homework that was given by the teachers, as they knew that it will not have an impact on their final result. But, in college or the university, the grading is ultimately different from the one they had in their high school. The grading system in college or the university has carry marks and CGPA. These two things are calculated from early the semester until the end of it, thus forcing them to maintain their performance until the very end of the semester. They are not used and exposed to the college or the university grading system during their high school years, but they still have the old attitude causing them to struggle hard in order to maintain their carry marks and CGPA at a comfortable zone. This explicitly shows that attitude is one of the leading causes why bright high school graduates struggled academically in the