According to Dictionary.com the word average refers to being typical, common, and ordinary. Now seeing the definition,the question is, why do we want to be average? Is it because we want to blend in and not be seen? or perhaps is it a small whisper that tells you this is all you got ? The individuals reason are a mystery to me and probably always will be because I really don't think anyone really knows the answer to this question.
In the story "I just wanna be average", Micheal Rose talks of his high school days as a undereducated teenager. In his story his entrance exams are mixed up with another student and is put into the below average classes. Already having to suffer school as it is he is left to deal with incompetent teachers for the exception of one, and classes that did not challenge his potential. Life was hard for rose. Yet, because of a teachers influence he was able to turn all of his negative experiences as his drive for ambition. The moral to this story suggests that it is easy to average, but it is hard to except and act with your full potential.
Even though the school systems need to be updated and have competent teachers placed in them. We are the deciders of our future and if we just settle and let our schools become who we are, then we are no better than the school itself. This average mentality needs to be changed and we need to remember that we are the ones who will represent our generation, therefore average is not going to cut it we need to go far and beyond average.
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