In Leonid Fridmans "America Needs Its Nerds" students that value and focus on acadimics are shunned from the spot light and shammed for there abilities. Fridman says, " Someone dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge is compared to a freak biting the head off of a live chicken." Fridman finds the fault not only with our society but with the sytemour education. In Mary Sherry's " In Praise of the F Word", she explains thatkids are not affraid of failing because there is not such a thing anymore. These are two problems with education system that our students whom take education seriously are not being reconized as the role models for how a student student try to be. On the other side the students that do not apply themselves are let off the hook
