Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Education in Canada" in English language version.
The majority of students are hampered by insufficient preparation at the secondary school level, lack of personal motivation, and disillusionment.
North American high schools and universities are pumping out under-educated, skills-lacking graduates who don't know how to learn because they never mastered the process of learning. They don't know how to fail because they never had to overcome failures. And they don't know how to succeed because everything has been handed to them.