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  1. Nov 2023
    1. And they feel a sense of relatedness when they perceive that their teachers like and value and respect them.

      relatedness is only about relationship between teachers and students - what about student to student relationships?

    2. Deci and Ryan acknowledge that many of the tasks that teachers ask students to complete each day are not inherently fun or satisfying; it is the rare student who feels a deep sense of intrinsic motivation when memorizing her multiplication tables.

      What difference would it make if the things students were asked to do was inherently fun and satisfying?

    3. How do we motivate low-income children to work harder and persevere in school? Or, digging deeper: How do we motivate anybody to do anything?

      ideally motivation is internal not external