Students need to understand their abilities and set realistic goals when deciding what classes to take and what grades they should expect to make. Students should be concerned about God's evaluation as well as the grade that is in the teacher's gradebook. Fear of failure is also curbed by application of practical suggestions, such as concentrate on past successes, not failures. Break large tasks into parts and progress by steps. It is said that nothing succeeds like success.
Teachers help students expect success when they give tasks at which students can succeed.
Laziness should be confessed and dealt with as sin. We must choose to be diligent and ask God for His help. Because God commands us to work, we know that work is good. Teachers and students should consider schoolwork as valuable and desirable, not as unpleasant toil. Assignments should be given in a positive way.