That is the paradox: If your students have internal motivation, don’t give them external motivation, because that would harm their internal motivation. On the other hand, if your students don’t have internal motivation, you have to give them external motivation, otherwise nothing ever gets done.
Most people when talking about education understand only one part of it, and then they suggest techniques which work well in some environments, and fail in different environment. And usually instead of realizing their mistake they insist that if you just did more of the same thing, it would work everywhere.
For example there are creative and motivated students who achieve impressive results when left on their own… and then you have people insisting that every student should be left on their own and that it will magically bring a new generation of super-motivated super-creative superheroes… and instead of that, we mostly get grade inflation and unemployable young people.
That is the paradox: If your students have internal motivation, don’t give them external motivation, because that would harm their internal motivation. On the other hand, if your students don’t have internal motivation, you have to give them external motivation, otherwise nothing ever gets done.
Most people when talking about education understand only one part of it, and then they suggest techniques which work well in some environments, and fail in different environment. And usually instead of realizing their mistake they insist that if you just did more of the same thing, it would work everywhere.
For example there are creative and motivated students who achieve impressive results when left on their own… and then you have people insisting that every student should be left on their own and that it will magically bring a new generation of super-motivated super-creative superheroes… and instead of that, we mostly get grade inflation and unemployable young people.