If Higher Purposes Aren't Enough, What About Encouraging Mental Weightlifting?

Of the many things one learns from three semesters of Psychology, it is that the brain is malleable, it can grow, change, and adapt. Just like working out your muscles to get stronger, you can workout your brain to get smarter.

As mentioned in the previous post, some struggling students only needed a sense of higher purpose to succeed a little bit more in their studies. The same seems to apply to ideas like the one stated above.

Today's kids are so often taught that intelligence is something you're born with, that some kids are just inherently unsmart and that there aint no way they're gonna ever make it in this darn world.

Statements like that are simply untrue. As a recent study showed, kids who are informed about the abilities of their brains to change and grow with effort, after a semester, were able to raise their GPAs an average of 14%. While that might not seem like much, it constitutes a full letter grade in difference.

Maybe adding more positive meanings behind education is all that's needed to encourage students to reveal their full potential. If that were true, and taken advantage of, how glorious schools around the country would become!