ATTITUDE

Attitude is defined as "a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state."  Having a good attitude about school and your classes is very important to your success. "Attitude isn't quite everything when it comes to being successful, but attitude plays a part in virtually every phase of your life."  (Success for Dummies) Remembering why we are in school will help keep a good attitude. Since school prepares us for life, we need a good attitude to have a good life. 

Ron Clark, the 2001 Disney Teacher of the Year wrote The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child.  In that book he gave 20 rules for successful students.

Without a good attitude, we cheat ourselves and others out of a good education to prepare us for tomorrow.  Discipline problems in class cause teachers to pay more attention to the problems than to teaching. Bad attitudes hurt more than just ourselves. Having a good attitude actually helps the teacher do their job better and makes a better learning environment.

Doing your very best is probably the best attitude to have when it comes to being successful. It's easy to do your best in subjects you like, but it's even more important to try your very hardest to master the material. Fighting against getting bored in subjects you don't like will keep your grades up.  When you do your very best, that's all you or anybody else can ask of you. Sometimes we don't do our very best if it is an easy subject, but if you don't pay attention you could make stupid mistakes that can lower your grade.

"Personality and a good attitude can take people a long way toward success in life. I can look back over the years and see brilliant students I have taught who didn’t get far in life."

Tommy Edwards,
Retired School Teacher

Here are some quotes about attitude that are good to think about:

"Attitude isn't simply a state of mind ... it is also a reflection of what you value. Attitude is more than saying I can; it is believing you can. It requires believing before seeing, because seeing is based upon circumstances, believing is based upon faith. Attitude is also contagious especially when you allow it to turn your doubts of the past into passions of today and set the stage for our tomorrows. You have total ownership of your attitudes. No one else has the power to alter your attitude without your permission. Your attitude allows you to become more empowering than money, to rise above your failures, and to accept others for who they are, and for what they say. Attitude is more important than giftedness and is the forerunner of all skills needed for happiness and success. Your attitude can be used to build others up, or put others down --- the choice is yours. Attitude gives you the wisdom to know that you can't change events of the past. Know that life is 10 percent of what happens to you, and 90 percent how you respond to it and it is with this state of mind that you remain in charge of your attitudes."

Author Unknown



"Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another."

Walter Elliott



"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

Doug Larson

"The attitude that upsets me the most," says Dr. Saundra DiPento, "is students who choose only to get by but don’t put their full potential to its maximum use. I think we are giving the message in America that 'getting by' is acceptable."

Webster lists seven meanings for the word attitude. There are two that relate to school success: 1. a mental position with regard to a fact or state, a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state  2. an organismic state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus (as an object, concept, or situation).

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