motivation

Holden does not have much motivation in school, which is pretty evident due to him failing out of at least 2 private boarding schools. He obviously doesnt have respect for his parents or other authority figures. when he visited his history teacher, he wouldnt even listen to what he said, all he could focus on was his ex-teachers physical appearence. in our culture today, a lot of our motivation just to go to school is out of our parents desire and our desire to please our parents. even if you go to school, not a lot of people give their 100% effort because of how easy we think it is to be successful. most of us would say that our parents are successful because they have jobs, a nice house for us to live in, and a nice family. and we all know our parents arent always the smartest people in the world.....so we believe that if everything worked out for them, it will work out for us as well. the economy was much better when our parents were job hunting though, but hopefully our economy will get better by the time we are out of college. i do not believe we have a lack of respect towards authority figures though. we still obey a lot of rules in our society and in our school. Holden's attitude doesnt bode well for his reputation of his attitude towards authority figures. he says that the Deans of his schools were morans and not very smart. he doesnt talk well about his authority figures which would indicate that he doesnt respect his authority figures. i dont know if Holden thinks everything will be alright in the future, or if he thinks that his parents will always just give him money and bail him out, but from what i can tell, he doesnt really care about what happens to his future.