Or de-motivator; something to think about…<\/p>\n
The Unhappiness Motivator I think Scott is on to something here. I have commented several times that I became a life-long learner in spite<\/em> of my educational experience rather than because<\/em> of it. If I wasn’t convinced that our boy would just goof off the whole time I would switch to home schooling immediately (maybe in a few more years, got to get his commitment as well as the boss’). I think the whole homework thing (indeed, the entire educational industrial complex) could honestly be considered a conspiracy to diminish kid’s interest in learning. <\/p>\n I am not sure what would be an acceptable solution (though I have talked about a couple (even here, I believe)), but what we have only ‘works’ if you consider subjecting kids to misery for 12 years in preparation for them being unhappy the rest of their lives is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or de-motivator; something to think about… The Unhappiness Motivator http:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\/entry\/the_unhappiness_motivator\/ I think Scott is on to something here. I have commented several times that I became a life-long learner in spite of my educational experience rather than because of it. If I wasn’t convinced that our boy would just goof off the whole time I … Continue reading “Misery as motivator”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\/entry\/the_unhappiness_motivator\/<\/a><\/p>\n