This is my entry to 
❇️ Finish the sentence (option two)
Below is the beginning of a sentence which you need to finish. Explain what the thing is and why you answered as you did.
• "I don't understand people who..."
..."Want" to speak English, but will not follow one single instruction/advice/suggestion/rule.
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In my twenty-plus years of teaching experience I have never felt so frustrated at people's inability or unwillingness to commit to a learning experience they insisted on having to begin with.
Like most things in life, learning a second language requires a lot of hands-on tasks, dedication, discipline, and self-motivation. In recent years, however, I have had terrible experiences with people who have approached me privately or have been assigned to my classes and who allegedly have strong external motivations to learn the language (work, studies, travelling, leaving the country for good, etc.), and yet, they are unable to make the minimum effort to learn.
I have had extreme cases of people I have offered to teach English for free, after they have made their cases or expressed their needs, and still, those courses invariably sink.
I do not especially understand people who pay for courses they either end up dropping or sloth through without complying with the most fundamental principles of language learning.
Ideally, if you are going to learn a language (especially for academic or professional purposes) you should master the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). However, let’s say you have other goals and you just need two of those skills (you want to understand what people say and get your point across effectively in oral communication). Even in those cases, you need a lot of exposure and practice, and here’s where the most insistent students end up failing. They can't combine their particular needs and their strengths to get whatever they need from the courses.
It seems to me that these inconsisten students have seen too many fake ads promising magical results without minimum effort. It happens with fitness products or diets, self-help, and socialism.
I seriously wonder if what I am witnessing is the result of twenty plus years of socialist mentality drilling into people’s subconscious: “You sit there, wait for Papa State to provide for you.”
Unfortunately, like socialism, the sitting-in-a-classroom-and-waiting-for-Papa-Teacher-to-do-everything-for-you does not work. English is not a spirit a medium can invoke and be possessed by. Teachers have not perfected that art yet. Of course, there is always the possibility that the teacher is so bad, the student can’t possibly learn anything from him, but I do have my fair share of successful cases.
I worry about the not-so-successful ones because they keep growing in time and, like a disease, they show certain patters you may call symptoms. Technology addiction has a lot to do with that. Instant gratification, entitlement, short attention span, and an increasing inability to communicate face to face (which takes us back to tech-addiction) are some commom features in students who want to learn, but can't commit. In either case, I still do not understand people who pay a doctor to cure them, but refuse to take the medication.