American education produces ineffective students because students are not treated like the young adults they are. To help students, education should help them develop their talents and should be tireless in both praise and criticism for their bright future. In “GenerationMe” (Twenge, 482) mentioned by Twenge, people are raised to have high self-esteem and to think they can do anything if they put their mind to it. For example, even if they get a failing grade on math exams, teachers will still praise them and students will think they did an excellent job. Raised in a very protected environment, they believe they are the best and will not put in the effort to develop their innate talents. Twenge states, “He argues that self-esteem based on nothing is not helpful to children in the long run; it is better, he says, for children to develop real skills and feel good about accomplishing something” (486). The problem with American education is that it doesn't care about each student's specialty. One student might be talented in cooking and another student might be talented in sports. A better education system could discover their talents as early as possible and help them develop their skills and students will be able to shape a successful future. With this method, America would be able to raise extraordinary individuals, and America could reach its maximum efficiency by having many talented people. However, there are some problems to change the current education system. This education system has worked for a long time, and America doesn't think it needs to be changed. There may be many members of congress who were raised during “GenMe” and will resist such changes. Faludi says, “Go back and…half of the paper…used on self-esteem. He always praises them even if they do something wrong and uses only positive words to avoid hurting them. However, this is wrong because they could have achieved maximum efficiency by teaching them to be more independent and helping them find ways to improve their talents. Students do not know the real society, the real working environment or even their university life because school simply does not give them the opportunity to know them. They don't know what they have to do and even forget what they are doing. The American education system should focus more on the idea of independence than self-esteem. In this way, even if the school cannot focus on each individual, it can help students decide about their lives after graduation. As a result, schools, society, and America will achieve true efficiency
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