This paper explores the responsibility of students in pursuing, maintaining, and succeeding in pursuit of their educational goals, accounting for the fact that some responsibility remains with teachers, instructors, and, professors. With that acknowledgement and understanding from the side of a student, there appears common popular discourse on the importance of education. The trend is the reduction of respect for educators. The discussion of this paper uses popular and academic forums. This reflection draws on international, national, interpersonal, and intrapersonal work such as personal experience, OECD rankings, academic articles, and the Huffington Post. They are used in the discussion of student responsibility for their own education. A reflection lays out the purpose of the pervasive nature of the conversation about educational reform. In that, they need to resolve the issue of teachers having proportional remuneration for the importance of their service in society. Furthermore, the remuneration could arise from students taking more responsibility in their own education.
