Killing a learner’s natural curiosity doesn’t happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in rare cases that isn’t long enough.
Since many boys do not read teacher-privileged literary fiction texts at home, many of them classify themselves as non-readers.
In the first stage of curiosity, students are primarily concerned with procedural knowledge: What they’re supposed to do and how.
A definition of intrinsic motivation includes doing an activity for its inherent satisfaction rather than for some separable consequence.
This would be a teacher that, rather than distributing content and assessing, actually leads the learning experience from ground-zero.
The most fundamental idea in public education–the infinite interdependence of living that scrutiny of schools misses entirely.
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