Educationally Speaking - Students need to be taught how to learn

What motivates our students? For educators, this is a very relevant question in the learning process. What is challenging the thinking of many is research concluding that external rewards and incentives are no longer the significant source of motivation as they once were.

In his book “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,” Daniel Pink concludes that what actually motivates ourselves and others is the internal need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things and to do better for ourselves and our world. We can understand by the author’s remarks that for students, achi...