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Inciting the Will to Learn

As a teacher one can be terribly naive with devastating results for organizational pace and resources. One can believe what one is teaching is being absorbed, will be used, is appreciated, the need is felt and that students will be, if not grateful certainly more effective in their work as they go along. Painful experience proves otherwise and can do so repeatedly; forcing one to ponder, what, if anything will bring on the realisation in a learner that there is a need to learn? After all, more often than not, the young worker, fresh out of graduate school does not have the experience to gauge their own quality or gaps in competencies and therefore the need for further training is not felt. When inputs are provided, the premise is that there is an interest in increasing competency, a passion for the subject or a commitment to the field of work/study. What if none of these motivators were true? What if the only motivator were to earn money? W...