[ExI] Peer review reviewed

[William Flynn Wallace]

Montessori - learn what you want to at your own rate.   Friend of mine went
to a school like that to the third grade.  Moved to Oklahoma and had to be
put back in the first grade - could not read or write - but boy could he
fingerpaint.

Motivation needs a place to go - to aim your efforts at.  What if someone
wasn't interested in anything a school had to offer?  Both of my sons were
like that.

Me?  I am so full of motivation that I have more projects on hand that I
can pay attention to, including a pile of books.  No one had to try to
interest me in anything - I am interested in far too many things already.

As far as motivating people, there are carrots and sticks and both can
work.  But I don't think you can install self-motivation.  I would love to
find out how.  'You can lead a horse to water.....'

One problem here is likely to be that all of us are self-motivated and
always have been.  We don't have to do anything to motivate ourselves -
it's already built in.
bill w

On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 6:17 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Thank god some other people  think this.
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> The whole current system is fucked.   School sucks and I think it's likely
> the root of most our problems here…
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> The psychologist Maslow accidently discovered why universities fail to
> provide so many students with what they came there for.
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> https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html#:~:text=There%20are%20five%20levels%20in,esteem%2C%20and%20self%2Dactualization
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> Many and possibly most of us went to college to learn a profession in
> order to take care of physiological needs, way down at the bottom.  But
> plenty of students came there under more fortunate circumstances and had
> that taken care of so they were there to party and get laid, which is up
> there higher, the love and belonging level.  But plenty of students showed
> up at college with that already working and more than enough self esteem.
> They came to college after already having been at work on
> self-actualization for years.
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> The education system is good at helping people work thru the lower levels,
> the university is good at getting you entertained, partied and laid.  Much
> above that, not so helpful, possibly harmful to those efforts.
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> Conclusion: Maslow accidentally discovered why students vary so widely in
> their opinion of education.
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