An Approach To Teaching Lifelong Learning

There is general agreement that intrinsic motivators are inherently superior to extrinsic motivators in producing learning results, particularly in the long run. There is considerable controversy about whether extrinsic motivators are negative in the sense that students may not respond to intrinsic drives once they have been rewarded for learning. Educational research suggests that this is sometimes the case, but not always. Nonetheless we have assumed that it is desirable to increase intrinsic motivation in our students, and hence we have sought ways to accomplish this. This effort begins with the