There is no such thing as a free lunch

This phrase is great for speaking about education. Learning/knowledge is not free. Everyone, even the rocket scientist and noble prize winners, had to work to get to were they are today. Everything that anybody has, got it through hard work. A teacher's job is to make sure that they do not just give away grades. Students need to work and earn every grade they get. Just because a student always gets an "A" does not mean that they always will in the future. All students need to be prepared as though every single one of them has the potential to go to college. There should be no singling out of students that teachers think may go to college. This makes the other students not try to their potential because they think that they are not good enough or smart enough. Teachers need to prepare every student for college, because in college you really do earn every "A" you get.