Motivation in Education (MP3 download) Yaron Brook

Motivation in Education (MP3 download) Yaron BrookBy Lisa VanDamme Few educators understand that offering students the right motivation is essential to a proper education. Many hold variants of the Platonist view that knowledge is an end in itself, desirable for its own sake. On this view, no motivation is necessary. Others regard education as a means to some subjectively desirable goal. On this view, motivation involves pandering to the child's short range values, from gold stars to pizza to cash.

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