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Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

Kirsten Olson
Learning, Want, Jilted
Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press

In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens.

Kirsten Olson
Teacher, Morning, Motivation

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