There are three fundamental elements to the life of any student, regardless of the grade level or personal preferences. Managing these three elements can be especially difficult all throughout his or her life. Students have to be concerned with living three lives: an intellectual life, a social life and a devout life. Students must hold studies and intellectual pursuit in high regard being that, after all, it is the reason they are in school. Beyond that, they must also manage to have a place within the community and develop a circle of friends. Beyond even that, they must not only not neglect their interior life, they must actively enrich it. They must have control over their desires, pursue high moral standards and become increasingly mature more and more each year. It sometimes seems impossible to do justice to each. But what can make this triple-life balance even more of a challenge is when intellectuality is the cog that causes the machine to run slower and less efficient. A bad educational experience, even with a single teacher, can affect the entirety of your future learning career. Still, the essential matter of contention is not dealing solely with a teacher being deemed "unsuited to teach." Accountability should be a core value in schools, teachers should teach students to become responsible partners in their own learning and no child should ever be left behind.
As a long time student who successfully graduated high school and is currently enrolled in university, I have come to know the general expectations the majority of my peers get out of the current school system. Students judge their own achievement by comparison with others in the class, feel little pressure for being responsible for their own learning, feel little responsibility for self-direction, believe the teacher's sole purpose in life is to teach them and they will accept that they will either pass or fail.
