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Failed Practice

Educators have been told that it is their responsibility to motivate the students.

PoorPsychology

It is not the responsibility of educators to motivate students but to determine what is causing them to lose their motivation

and stop such practices.

• People are born motivated

• Adults demotivate• Most people, once

discouraged, stay that way

W. Edwards Deming

Loss of Enthusiasm for School

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Grade Level

Percent

Who Love School

Survey results from 3000 teachers attending LtoJ seminars. Ques-tion was, "What grade level do you teach and what percent of stu-dents love school at your grade level?

Daniel Pink wrote...

If at age fourteen or forty-three, we’re passive and inert,

that’s not

because it’s our nature.

It’s because something

flipped our default setting.

Drive, p89

If at age fourteen or forty-three, we’re passive and inert, that’s not because it’s our nature. It’s because

something flipped our default setting.Drive, p89