Philosophy Blog Prompts: Should you be rewarded for your efforts in school?

For me, I think that we should be rewarded for efforts in school. However, not all efforts should be rewarded. I think that there should be rewards as sometimes rewards can push students on. For example, if there is an examination coming soon, but a student does not feel like studying. If he is told by his parents that he would be taken on a trip to Europe if he gets good results, surely the student would be pushed on and he himself would urge himself to study and work really hard in order to get the reward.

However, not all achievements should be given rewards. Rewards should not be given for minor events such as class tests. Instead, rewards should only be given for great achievements such as end-of-year examinations. Giving too many rewards would also cause harm. If a student is given rewards for all huge and little achievements by his parents, he would not try his best to do well if his parents do not give him a reward for getting good results.

Rewards should also be little ones, not huge one unless the student has done extremely well. For example, if a student is given huge and expensive rewards such as video games when he achieves something, he would also not want to do well if he is told that he would only get a little reward. Therefore, I think that rewards should be given only for the achievements that are really good or important.