Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers.
It’s not quite that simple. “Kids can be given the opportunities to become passionate about a subject or activity, but they can’t be forced, ” says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, who led a landmark, 25-year study examining what motivated first grade students in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe
A. Children are born with plenty of ambition
B. A baby learns to walk and talk ambitiously
C. Ambition can be taught like other subjects at school
D. Some teenage children lose their drive to succeed
Shakespeare was born in 1564. He probably studied Latin in the village school, and his plays show that he had read widely the books in his day, but we know little of his education. He left his hometown in 1586 and in 1592 he was well known in London as an actor and a dramatist.
In the next few years he published two poems, and by this time he was also writing some famous poems. His life seems to have lacked the adventure found in the careers of many Elizabethans and indeed in those of some of his early dramatists. He early became a member of one of the leading dramatic companies and he continued a shareholder in its profits until his death.
Shakespeare’s plays were popular both in the theatre and at court, but less than half were printed. It was only late in his career that man began to realize that his successful and interesting dramas were to be a part of the world’s great literature. Shakespeare did not appear as an actor after 1603, but he continue
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