this sort of persistence is missing in the students they teach. One of the most common complaints I hear from teachers is that students don’t want to struggle; they want to be told what to do. To the teachers it seems as though students just can’t be bothered with struggling, which is probably what it looks like. The truth is, however, that when students don’t want to struggle, it is because they have a fixed mindset; at some point in their lives they have been given the idea that they cannot be successful and that struggle is an indication that they are not doing well.
