FOCUS ON EDUCATION Studying and Me
When I attended school, I never knew how to study. No one took the time to show me. I don’t remember teachers showing me techniques on how to study. All they did was harp on the same theme song: “Study-study! Do your homework! Work hard in school and you will get a good grade.” But you know what? That preaching left me cold and unmotivated to study hard.
My parents couldn’t help me because they didn’t know anything about school. They never attended one. As a result I was a C student most of the time with a great sprinkling of D’s and F’S. I knew A’s and B’s as the first and second letters of the alphabet but rarely saw them on my report cards.
I graduated from high school never learning how to study. I drifted from job to job. Often I had two or three different jobs in a week’s time. I bounced around and around. After two years of working on many various jobs, I realized that I didn’t enjoy work in which I had
