Giving Students Responsibility

Do teachers do too much for their students? Do parents do too much for their children? Are we interfering in their development of a sense of responsibility? Having taught at both the the high school level and the elementary level I have noticed over the years that more and more students are not taking responsibility for their own learning. It seems that if they encounter some difficulty then they almost give up, and in fact many do give up. Why? They know that the teacher will usually

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