Foley, Minnesota
It seems like a trend these days to avoid doing difficult things. In this avoidance, we seem to generate a more comfortable and secure existence; however, avoiding challenges only causes us to learn how to avoid difficult things. Avoiding challenges does not prepare us to do great things, only to shrink from doing great things.
Educationally, we always want to provide an appropriate level of challenge to a student. Make an assignment to a class that is too easily accomplished and students are bored and unmotivated to complete the task. Give an assignment that is much too difficult and to which the student is not adequately equipped to complete, and there is a tendency for the student to not start, or once started, to give up.
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